A bearded addendum
Looking at my bearded reflection in the mirror, I felt a sudden 'grandchild'ly feeling towards one ancient member of the bearded brethren. One "Mylapore man, sitting near Sanskrit College".... .
The oldest known genius from the land(Tamil Nadu) which has produced many, today he is largely ignored. The english speaking Tamil kids of today probably know more about Hammurabi's Code than Mr Valluvar's 1330 kurals.
PS:Valluvar's beard has always amazed me. A marvellous specimen that.
posted by mutRupuLLi @ Tuesday, June 06, 2006
4 Comments:
Sridhar,
Sorry, i shaved :(
@trk - not in the near future buddy.
@bala - hmmm...paravala bala, apologies accepted :)
I dont know why a beard is taken as a sign of a great individual with unusual insight into life...(a random thought)
@preethi:Syllogism ma'm..
1.Sridhar is a bearded fellow.
2.Sridhar is great.
3.Hence all bearded fellows are great.
Simple ain't it :):)
But where one to search for more convincing reasons....it is probably like
the dumb blonde image. Due to various reasons (or forces should I say) like movies, novels we generally to associate a blonde to dumbness, however ridiculous the notion is. Probably something like that works for beard too...though on the evidence of the great folks in the my other article, beard indeed seems to be a sign of difference if not greatness.
OK that was my 0.2 paise worth thought.
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