Like in any society, the way of you dressing affects your experiences. Your style choices state about your aims and these statements are focus to cultural understanding. Though a tiny component of urban India exposed to and usually accepted new style directions, many Indians kept a more traditional view.
Many tourists dress for the fellow tourists. The logic looks to be whether it is odd in New York City, why not Chennai. The difficulty is that in Chennai, most of people you meet will not have the New York viewpoint. Your odd outfit can come across as comical, bizarre, or too suggestive. It is going to influence how people communicate with you.
Your best principle is to look through you, understand what the local people are wearing, choose good conscience what you could be convenient wearing, and start from there. And fit your dress as the circumstances change. An outfit, which will attract attention on the Goa or Kovalam beach, can draw negative responses in Hyderabad. And a suave center such as Ben- galooru will adopt more casual dress, which the temple Madurai.
Excavations in the ten thousand year old Indus Valley Civilization in the Indus Valley in western India have turned up evidence of the flute, the drum and other types of stringed instruments. This reinforces the universal belief that Indian classical music is one of the most ancient types still surviving. It has of course evolved over the centuries but its basic elements remain unchanged. As the great Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar has said: “Music, the greatest art of my country has the unique quality of appealing directly to the hearts and minds of men, Indian music, especially, has this quality in abundance for it is rooted in nature itself”.
Generally, urban Indian men put on western dress – some difference of a shirt and long pants. Western men dressing conventional Indian clothing are fast divided into the “hippie” category.