“You run an NGO, wear jeans ripped at the knees, move about in society, children are with you, what values you will teach?”

— Mahesh Sharma

Criticizing a random woman he met on a plane, as quoted in " Why India is talking about ripped jeans and knees https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56453929" by Geeta Pandey, BBC News (22 March 2021)

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