The Nose (part-I)

Well its not a very cliche choice for a title. But I guess a tormenting cold has forced me to introspect and take this part of my body much more seriously. There will always be men who'll hail their respective libidos to be the best part of their body, just to remind them, you aren't the best judge of that you see, it's not an organ meant to suffice you, so you'd hardly have a hunch how it stands out! More so, what makes men like these so insecure of their manhood in the first place bowls me over completely . Not to get too vulgar here, after all this is supposed to be a family blog :P

The nose, for that matter, is an organ that interests me , just for the sake of its "symbolism" , not solely in Indian sense but globally. For starters it's meant to signify your Self-Respect , as the famous Indian phrase goes " naak katwa di" . This phenomenon of the nose being cut ( not literally though) has been plagiarized by the scene in Ramayana ,when Surpanakha, Ravana's sister fails at her attempts to seduce Sir Ram and in lieu of her heart wrenching efforts , her " nose" is torn to pieces quite heartlessly by H/O Mrs. Sita. Now that perhaps, was not a battle of seduction that Ram had to face, it was an attack on his Self Respect and he reacted in the way described above. I'm just wondering why the "Nose" ? why not a hand or a leg for that matter, why not a plain little scar on the forehead.

It was in the Oxford Book Store in C.P. once when I heard a pretty lady with eyes glazing with fire say " your right ends where my nose starts" to a young gentlemen giving an impression that if there was anything that he needed most at that instant , then it was a room to lock himself up . At the suddenness of it all , I came to believe that perhaps the fine looking gentlemen had tried to tickle the nose of the young lady for unknown reasons of course, but it was only when I tried to imagine the whole incident that I realised that " the nose " was simply a symbolic personification, in actuality it stood for something else . What it means to reflect, is not particularly clear to me, but it is an inevitable reflection of one's personality.