Hair is not just hair. Hair is social comment. Hair is rebellion, hair is counter culture, hair is protest against war. The 1979 rock musical ‘Hair’ chronicled the hippie movement and protest against the Vietnam war. The film ‘Hairspray’ was a depiction of a young girl’s dream to dance on TV shows. Now in times of lockdown, when barbers, salons and hair dressers are mostly out of bounds, our hair is taking on a life of its own, forcing us to sing zulfon ko hata lo chehre se. We live in hair-raising times, on a hair trigger alert, trying not to split hairs.
Some salons and barber shops are opening but experts warn that there are still risks aplenty if we’re thinking Read More
