[Reader-list] The length and breadth of the country

[Tapas Ray]

Rana,

Thank you for sharing this. I think some important issues need to be 
addressed here. The first, of course, is: what is globalization doing, or 
has or has not done, to the Indian size? Do you know if there has been any 
longitudinal (no pun intended) study on this?

> Mr Puri said that since Indians would be embarrassed about going to a 
> chemist to ask for smaller condoms there > should be vending machines 
> dispensing different sizes all around the country.

A practical issue would be, whether to tag the different sizes as S, M, L, 
XL and XXL or in inches/centimeters. This, again, has to do with 
globalization - the "standard" way of marking sizes, etc. The letter system 
seems to be coming into increasing use even in India, thanks to 
globalization.

> But Indian men need not be concerned about measuring up internationally 
> according to Sunil Mehra, the former
> editor of the Indian version of the men's magazine Maxim.
> "It's not size, it's what you do with it that matters," he said.

That is reassuring indeed!

Tapas Ray