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Prudence Over Habit, or Why Not To Bathe Daily

So it was Saturday night, and alone I sat wondering why we are burdened with the chore of existence. And thinking of chores, I was reminded about another most daunting chore. Having a bath daily. I mean, why waste away so much water and precious pheremones! But then a wave of Nirvana swept across my mind. And I was enlightened ever more. For in that moment of sweet nirvana, I found out the reason for having a bath daily. And now that I have the knowledge, I must pass it on. The knowledge could enable us to optimise the frequency of the activity without being compelled to label a violator of the daily bath ritual a heretic. You see, dead skin cells from the epidermis keep shedding from the human skin. The epidermis is the topmost layer of the skin. Cells on it keep getting replaced by the cells from beneath it. In around thirty days, the skin of a person gets totally replaced by new cells. Snakes collect it and shed it at once. We humans keep shedding little by littl

On Corruption and Benevolent Loot

They were sitting in my hotel room, waiting for Rohit to get ready. In between our discussion about the falling rate of the rupee in comparison to the dollar, somebody took Baba's name and hijacked the conversation. "Do you know sir that Baba had actually died 7 days before his death was announced to the public?" Baba was a prominent politician of the area, now dead. "What do you mean?", I asked. "Baba’s death was announced on the 14th, but he had actually died seven days earlier due to an organ failure." "Why? Why would his family do such a thing?" "It is rumored that it took his family and accountants seven days to clear all evidences wherein Baba could get implicated. In the last 7 days, they cleared all the proofs, took all fingerprints, faked all documents that had to be faked and sent all the money abroad that had to be sent abroad. His body was kept in a sealed casket when it was shown to the people so that t

Marriage Ceremonies, or Let's Make it Large

Marriage ceremonies can be discreet, in a few cases, but in vast majority of cultures and religions, the ceremony is a social affair. In cultures which do not allow extra-marital or premarital relations (which traditionally I think almost all didn’t), the event should be such so as to make the general population aware that two people have been legally wedlock and hence are entitled to stay together without the people’s objection, or better still, with their cooperation. So in a small village, all the village folk could be gathered to proclaim the event. In larger ones, someone’s community or relatives or friends may be invited to attend the event. We have religions like Christianity and Islam where marriages are a relatively quiet affair with the presence of only a few relatives and close friends, generally speaking. Then we have religions like Hinduism and Indian versions of Christianity and Islam, wherein every bloody person who ever got acquainted with the couple or their fa