By: Aalam Singh Batth.
Normally when I gain consciousness, I find myself in the same place where I lost it. So, I was in a complete state of tiredness and confusion when I found myself in front of a mirror. Normally I would read a newspaper with a cup of tea and comb my hair but the current socio-political scenario has induced balding and a desire to lose all my hair colour, no black, white or orange. Crumpled bedsheets indicated that I just woke up, to add to the evidentiary value to this corroborating piece of evidence is, my hair, flowing in whichever direction they feel like, some swing left, some on the right, some in the middle sometimes swaying right or left as they desire. Neither the majority of the hair be it on the left or the right try to demean, influence or buy each other out to the other side. No hair is treated as a traitor if they oppose the view of the majority, jokes are taken to the ‘root’, use of any shampoo is tolerated and all the illegal dandruff’s are ‘hairly’ (humanly) and fairly deported. The views of the middle hairs is heard to balance out the symmetry of the hair style. The baldness refers to the hairs who have completely given up on the current views and no longer exist to add to the hairstyle.The hairstyle looks good and only makes sense when the left, right, middle and the bald embrace each other for who they are. There is no ‘haireditory’ nepotism or any restrain on the changing colours of each and every hair. No hair is bulldozed without having prior notice or consent. The context being that my hairstyle is fair, just and reasonable to each and every follicle, it coexists happily, my hairstyle is undefined changing each and everyday depending on the weather and the flow of the wind.
Well that’s the hairstyle, the facial hairs are a whole different breed, they occasionally change colours and sides, on both extremeties or sometimes a coalition of both. They’re occasionally bulldozed or suppressed whenever they try to raise themselves and organise them in union of shapes and styles. Sometimes they’re allowed to be raised so as to satisfy the perception of the wider hair populace.
The body hair are the worst of all these hypocrites, they stay the way they are privately but they change their views or hide themselves in quiet ‘areas’ where no one wants to take a look as they have to satisfy certain enticing external demands in order to look accommodating and cooperative. My hair stays the same, wherever they are and function compartmentally in unison without any tariffs or disdain but with a complete sense of worldly understanding.
There is no ‘mon-hair-chy’ or ‘dict-hair-ship’ nor is it is a dict-hair-ship under the guise of a well functioning ‘demo-hair-cy’, well because that’s what you call a wig or a trip to Turkey or getting a Brazilian.
