The lungi has been reinterpreted several times over — it has made it to runways, been upcycled into dresses and has even inspired Spanish label Zara to launch a lungi-style skirt in 2018.

To say the lungi is not a social attire is trying to buttress a discriminatory notion that may be just half-a-century old. To attribute it to a religion is adding poison to the insult.

NEW YORK, NY – In a remarkable turn of events, the association between Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and the ubiquitous ‘lungi’ has reached new heights of iconicity. Khan’s ...