09/28/2013
Superstitions
"Just to inform you
these week due to our religious thing I will not be able to shave
I known these is silly"
I stay in India because there is not one day where I don’t miss falling from my chair. When I get this type of sms from my colleagues for instance…
Or when I get comments from this other colleague (a very educated and smart guy who can spell English this one):
“If you remember our first interview I had changed the date. Because I had to come on an auspicious day, with the stars and everything. Now if you see I had done the same last time and I stayed 10 years in that company.”
No comment…
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01/06/2012
If hair is given to God and I buy a wig with this hair, am I God?
I have spoken a lot about hairs.
Hairs in the ears which is more developed in India than other countries (see: ). Hypertrichosis.
Hairs that grow more in India due to the humid climate (see here).
Hairs that Sikh people let grow and put in a turban (see here).
Hairs that a cricket star shaved after winning a game (see here).
And I have probably mentioned it in other posts (here and there…).
And here a few words about the business of hairs.
”Many Indian women offer their hair to deities in Hindu temples in a show of (Click on “Lire la suite” to read more)
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