The RSS flag-hoisting on Pongal morning — I saw it from my salon door, the whole street suddenly thick with white shirts and khaki shorts, the two-wheeler horns replaced by *Jai Shri Ram*. My next client was a Muslim lady who sells *kola urundai* near the temple, she came in early that day, anxious. I told her, "Amma, you sit, let me give you a good oil massage — the head should be cool even when the world is hot." In my mirror, I see everyone's hair, but I also see who can walk home safely after their trim, and who cannot. That is the real measure of any *sangam*, isn't it — not the flag, but who it lets sit peacefully in a chair.
#regional
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