Joy Of Thinning Hair And Grayer Beard

Cheeniya Sir,

I had the same feeling as a child, that beards and wisdom have some connection with each other.

Also, you got fascinated with the razor and tried it on your face, me being a girl and still fascinated with the razor, used it to get myself a razor bang and ended up shaving a part of my head Well, I looked rather funny and my parents rather shocked, but then children and razors have a connection as well is what I think because I know of umpteen people who have tried the razor in various ways as a child, be it shaving off their head, eyebrows or face!

 

Last time when I was in India, I watched a 4D movie. Yes, a movie where apart from your 3D stereo vision, your feet are also tickled (literally). To enhance your sensory experience, a physical stimulus is released now and then like tickling of your feet or soft rolls on your arm chair. I cannot remember the movie but it was cartoon film. I came out and felt that instead of the fortified extra "D", they should have enlisted captions for an immersive experience. I don't know why anyone would watch an English movie without English subtitles and miss out on that 5D ambience.

 

People change their city, their character, their customer base to regain trust and hit pay dirt again. Here, the man had to only change one letter in his manufactured goods to reboot his life again. Innovation can begin with trifle alteration rather than a radical overhaul.

 

I have never come across one. This is the first of such theatrical domes I have heard of.

What a sound and visual innovation! I didn't even know about This is Cinerama and the tinkering of aspect ratio till I came across widescreen mania in Bill Bryson's Notes from a small island. Today we have iMax screens. Imagine what must it be like in the early 30s and 40s when, now ubiquitous, colour added thrill to a movie-watching experience.

That 360 degrees projection resembles the dome of a planetarium. Incidentally, the Birla planetarium in Chennai was my first visit to any science institute or the likes. I was too young and cannot remember much but the planetarium hosted a year round science exhibition. I must be three or four when I visited it. As they say, you always remember your firsts.

 

Why is that interpreted as a blue circle with a white leaking hole? Is that not a full blue circle fronted by a white pin?

White pin! That is what it looks like to me. A white pin standing tall in front of a blue sphere.
We may be small (pin), but hold the world (blue planet).

You may reprimand, "Stop watching those nature documentaries ...blue planet and white stamens."

Tell you, incidentally pin in my language (Telugu) is not bland. It comes with sharp imagery.

It is called gundu (bald) + soodi (pin) = gundusoodi (bald pin)

Growing up, I used to call that gunde (heart) + soodi = gundesoodi , and wondered why was that pin named heartpin. Later I realized, it is bald (gundu) and not missing a heart (gunde) like our Tin Woodman from Oz. Going by the analogy, Nagarwala must have been a variant of the traditional pin propagandised by SBI, a linchpin of the scam.