Ravana Is My Role Model!

@Cimorene
Mustache is not my cup of tea. I tried sporting one during my early college days but I was getting too self conscious about it. I always had this feeling that everyone was staring at my mustache. Once I touched my mustache in sleep and screamed thinking that some deadly insect had descended on my face and slapped hard on it only to wake up in pain. That was the last I ever tried a mustache. A little later, I switched over to a free growing beard which required no maintenance like a mustache or a daily shave. As I type my Ramblings or FBs and if I get stuck, I start pulling my beard or running my fingers through it and presto, a new thought would flash in my mind. I would get my fingers entangled in my beard released as fast as I could before my new thought could disappear from my mind and use the just released index finger to type out my FB.

By the way, did you say Bahubali to rhyme with Mahabali?
Sri

 

You know Kerman, when I was working in the Bank, I had a myocardial infarct and was treated by an eminent cardiologist. It was in the early '80s. Later on I got transferred to Madras as the Manager of a large Branch and the Cardiologist approached me for financial assistance to put up a full-fledged cardiac specialty hospital. The loan was sanctioned and the hospital was put up in due time. I would visit this hospital for periodic check up and I made it clear to him that I expected no concession from him as the Bank would reimburse my medical expenses.

Probably I should not have told him that. He had acquired a lot of equipment and needed patients like me for two reasons. One was that he could use all those equipment to get a true picture of my health condition. Secondly it gave him an opportunity to test his new toys! He would first make me lie on his bench and plant his stethoscope somewhere in the region of my heart and start talking about the performance of his hospital. It might last close to some 45 minutes and all the while he would keep the steth rooted to the spot. Sometimes the hearing end of his steth would be round his neck like brackets and not plugged into his ears! After giving me a complete resume of the functioning of his hospital, he would remove the steth and order a Holter Test. For the next 24 hours, a scary portable monitor would be fixed around my body only to be replaced with a bill for Rs.2000 on the following day!
Sri

 

@Cimorene @Kamla
First mustache, then beards and we'll move on to tails! Being a highly systematic chap, I'll deal with them in that order. I have nothing against mustache but the world is full of mismatch in the sense no one seems to have selected the right kind of mustache for himself. Therefore instead of enhancing the appearance of the person, an ill fitting mustache can make him appear grotesque. The only person who had selected the right kind of mustache and sported it proudly was Salvador Dali, the famous surrealist painter of the last century. All other mustaches and the men who sported them were not the 'made for each other' class.

Beards are different. They are not fussy about the terrain that they occupy. Beards never fail to give a distinguished look to the owners. Let me give you a set of beards that are in demand today:


See how the beards merge with the face! Let me give you some names who were made famous by their beards:
Political: Lenin
Mystical: Aurobindo
Poetical: Tagore
Spiritual: Jakki Vasudev
Il: cheeniya

When we think of tails, the first name that comes to mind is Hanuman
@Kamla has mentioned that 'Hanuman's tail upon which he sat it is said in Ravana's court as he was not offered a seat by the ten headed king!' I remember this point being hotly debated in my school during my student days. Hanuman was not given a seat in Ravana's court when he was ensnared by Indrajit and dragged to the court. Hanuman reportedly made his seat with his tail and sat on it towering over Ravana's head. The question was how the seat was made by him. It was then we happened to witness Sampoorna Ramayanam staged by the renowned stage artist Nawab Rajamanickam in which he himself played the role of Hanuman. In that particular scene, this was how he sat on his tail:


Tailpiece:
@kelly1966
Kerman, would you like to learn anything more in particular about Hanuman's tail? Cimerone and I are ready!
Sri