IMPHAL DIARIES: BALDY MAN: JOINING THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY MEN......

This blog is dedicated to all my friends n seniors who are in same league ...or who are going to join the league of extraordinary men

Oh GOD......this mrng...when I looked at mirror n saw that I'm now in League of Extraordinary Men ...a sense of euphoria..as well a feeling that how I will look ...or to say how others will think about me....dawned upon me

n to make it more difficult my partner told me that I need not to go for hair transplant as I'm looking HOT enough...sic...!!????!!!!!!!

Historically in world of men, it's one of the most important topic once you cross 40

 .....Vikings used a lotion of goose poo. The ancient Greek medic Hippocrates believed the best cure for baldness was really pigeon droppings, which he mixed with horseradish, cumin and nettles. 

For as long as men have had access to mirrors, they’ve been fretting about their scalps getting lonely. It was a particular obsession of Julius Caesar, who tried everything to get his hair back; the wreath of laurels he wore was less a nod to Roman tradition than an attempt at covering up his shiny ...skull...

By the time he met Cleopatra, he was almost completely bald. In a last ditch attempt to save his scalp... she lovingly recommended a home remedy of ground-up mice, horse teeth and bear grease.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work. He lost his hair like many great men before and since, including Socrates, Napoleon, Aristotle, Gandhi, Darwin, Churchill, Shakespeare to SELF 

 Eventually Caesar began growing his hair longer at the back and combing these strands forwards across his head, a technique which was optimistically described as “illusion styling”. Now it’s known as the comb-over.

 As you will understand bare heads aren’t a spectacular evolutionary accident after all. Bald men are seen as more intelligent, dominant and high status; their shiny scalps may help them to seduce women or even save lives.  .... hopefully...people say...!!!!!!

 If you think about it, early human males would have been running around completely hairy and with twigs to cover them up....a big shaggy head of hair, a big bushy moustache – all kinds of body hair – they would have been very kind of threatening looks.....

So in evolutionary process when Baldy men entered into system it would have helped in  separating mature, high-status men from hostile adolescents.

The shaven look has been a hit with philosophers, teachers and priests for centuries.  Seers and monks have taken this one step further – not only shaving their heads, but doing so in a way which directly mimics

 the way men go bald....

So to say it's not a life threatening situation or something to hide....friends don't put caps or hats or wigs....let the shiny scalp ...become our strength...n as it is known if someone doesn't except bald smartness it's their losss....         three cheers to baldness

IMPHAL DIARIES

LAWNS a sign of aristrocracy

I used to think why so many people maintain lawns n now seeing in lutyens delhi the love of people for bungalow s n their fetish for lawns... but now seeing it in IMPHAL which is naturally so serene n beautiful ...I penned down following

‍Lawns are some of the most mundane things in the world until you really start thinking about them. That's when you realize that they make no sense. Why do people keep patches of perfectly manicured, uninteresting, pointless little plants outside their homes? They're not beautiful like flowers, they don't provide food and you have to mow them constantly.

In the Middle Ages, when French and English aristocrats started putting carefully cropped patches of grass at their castle entrances.

Well-kept lawns demanded land and a lot of work, particularly in the days before lawnmowers and automatic water sprinklers. So a job was created for poor people... by landlords... 

Peasants could never afford wasting their time or land on lawns, so these artificial meadows were a perfect status symbol for nobility. They proclaimed,.....I am so rich and powerful, and I have so many acres and serfs, that I can afford this green extravaganza.

This status symbol ended up outlasting the monarchies that created it. Kings and dukes were toppled and killed, but new presidents and prime ministers kept the lawns.

Humans thereby came to identify lawns with political power, social status and economic wealth...

Rich entrepreneurs appeared on the world scene ... And they wanted lawns too.

In this century now middle classes have started being able to afford their own mini versions of wealthy manors: suburban houses. And guess what has became the ultimate suburban status symbol? A perfectly mowed lawn.

The popularity of lawns continued to grow, taking over public event spaces and sports. In the past, people played sports on all kinds of surfaces – dirt, ice, sand. But in the last couple centuries, they made the switch to green grass, or turf made to imitate green grass.

People like us may not realize it, but we also meticulously care for patches of grass because centuries ago, medieval French and English kings wanted to show off how many serfs they had ... by intentionally planting something useless. It's strange that people would continue to spend so much time and money on what's really a weird leftover from the Middle Ages. But that's history n reality

When we now come to plan your dream house, you might think twice about having a lawn in the front yard

You are free to shake off the cultural cargo bequeathed to you by European dukes, capitalist moguls and our netas – and imagine for yourself a  rock garden, or some altogether new creation...