It was one of our family get together The family members were having fun and chatting with their peer level relatives, discussions were flowing touching across many topics, like studies of their kids, what extra feats each one is good at, culinary tips, shopping experiences, preparedness for the forth coming festival, nuisances of unwanted messages from advertisers. This is when the topic started drifting slowly towards "Hair".
Are we not somehow fascinated about hair?
I Receive at least a few sms from advertises claiming that they can control hair fall, delay baldness, enhance hair growth, and even implant fresh hair, you move on to TV channels you can find an array of advertisements on a range of products, hair oil, shampoo, hair colorant, lice control.
Well we all might agree that we do have a special reference to hair as one of the most important natural gift which has the capability of enhancing our looks and never missed to pocket the complement that “you have beautiful hair”
We at least spend a considerable time on doing our hair, be it short or long, combing and brushing and setting it in its place is what we love to do, and not to forget, the comb is the only cosmetic carried by men,thou he is Bald,And hair is also one of the most envious procession for both men and women, we never miss to spell a wow when u see a girl/lady with long voluminous bouncing hair and many a times we automatically would like to touch and feel our own hair to compare ourselves on our standing.
I Think each one of us would have undergone that dreadful experience of undergoing our heads being shaved, crying/wailing before it and at least seen our hairless head a hundred times in the mirror and again cried seeing how ugly we looked with that hairless head.
Well coming back to our luncheon discussion about hair, one of my sister in laws was narrating the tough time she had ,in pursuing her teenage son for a haircut, while a few were lamenting that visiting a saloon for a haircut is one of the most priority items on men’s list. A few of us were complaining about the irrational decision that our teenage girls had done with chopping off the long dangling tresses with a short hair which they felt was more manageable, this is when my brother added spice to this topic stating that girls/ladies felt liberated when they could do away with their long hair, it gave them confidence and a feeling of freedom, and at times it was a way of saying to the other gender, Hum kise se kum nahi< we are not inferior to you in any way >. On the contrary the moment boys show resistance to have a haircut is an indirect way to express that they have grown up. Further, cutting the hair and grooming it short was extending a feeling that someone was interfering with their freedom, and perhaps cutting short the hair of a man was an act of taming him. He also said if men are allowed to grow their hair long they become very powerful, thou this was more a general statement, some thinking on this really made a lot of sense.
Don’t we have a general perception that girls with long hair neatly plaited, are highly accommodative, submissive, pious and homely, while those with short hair are highly arrogant , dominating and modern. Contrary to this guys who are well groomed and clean shaved are preferred against men with long hair(playfully called samiyar), when I just recall men with long hair, at least a few images which came to my mind were those of Lord Shiva, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mahaveer, Baba and invariably all sadhus and sidhas,and of couse some of our inventors and scientists, who are really powerful. And those extraordinary bad men what you see in movies and serials.
In general conversations,we refer hair in tamil as both very useless stuff or too great a one .,people who speak tamil may enjoy inserting a few slangs used and have a good laugh
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