India, March 6 -- Vishnu Narayanan Namboodiri, a Malayalam poet and a professor in English Literature, often wore just a dhoti, and a thorth (traditional coarse cotton towel from Kerala) thrown across his chest, over his left shoulder. The sartorial simplicity appealed to the cynical Malayalee; yet in full view was Vishnu Narayanan's sacred thread, the tradition, which he could not but honour but was not quite correct in India-outraged....