I finally trimmed my hair to first semester levels. As Palvi Raikar rightly said “Everybody needs a change of hair style“.

This is a bold move, I went against one of the tenets of Vladism. But then as a progressive religion, Vladism is supposed to change with time and situation. It grows organically and doesn’t intend to put you down in shackles. As a person who believes in the justice of Vladism, I understood that growing and cutting, as well as maintaining hair is a necessity. The whole goddamn society is against men growing hair. You are licensed to grow hair if and only if you are

1) an artist
2) a musician/rock-star/metal-head
3) an intellectual or a scientist
4) a self-employed business-man
5) a model
6) a dancer
7) a gunda, thug or in mallu vadaka kolayaali
a shikandi or an eunuch
9) a temple priest
10) a beggar
11) a sanyasi
12) dead

The chances I fall into this sphere is limited to the options 1,2,3 and 5.

I was astonished by the continuous taunts and the expletives used against me. Evil looks and advises came in the plenty. Little effect did it have on the Vlad.

I made a few studies on this topic. I used this opportunity to make a surface study of the situational hazards of growing hair.

1) If your body is like that of Mohan Lal,

In Dhoom 2, Hrithik Roshan had an 8-pack.

In Om Shanti Om, Shah Rukh Khan had a 6-pack.

In Sagar Alias Jacky, Mohan Lal had a school-bag.

plus you have long hair, you look like a girl from behind.

2) A lot of conditioners and shampoos have estrogen and progesterone to improve your hair strength. So more conditioning and shampooing would be like eating a lot of broiler chicken. I mean your secondary sexual characteristics have a slight possibility of getting affected.

3) Hair loss is a big concern. You spend a lot of time tending to your hair. Even though you have a higher hair density than most people around you, when you lose even a single strand due to the hair dying after its life-cycle, it appears to be a huge loss, just beacause of the fact that your hair is longer than the average make human hair and it is observed easily.

4) People can’t hug you properly and put their arms around your shoulder, because your hair might entangle and when they try to remove their arms it may come along with it.

5) Jealous compatriots and females especially. Stupid friends pull you hair often.

6) When you use an umbrella, strands of hair get stuck in the stem of the steel bar, and get yanked off, its painful.

7) Old people usually above the age of 40 think you are some kind of rebel, and social pervert.

People accept almost readily the fiction that you are a drug-addict, an alcoholic and fag abuser. You seem to have no respect for girls, teasing them and thinking of rape all the time. The good-hearted Vlad gets lost in this false image.

9) You bald faster, male-baldness sets in earlier.

10) You get eve-teased and howled at on Kerala roads. Its too funny and when you turn back at them, you should see their startled faces. The mess workers mistake you for a girl.

11) It sweats and itches, and you feel a huge weight on your neck. I respect women for their patience and their perseverance.

12) You will be continuously questioned and people around you will also feel uncomfortable. They always need a reason for things, and you come up with reasons they don’t want, and then they think you are huge show-off. I love and respect my Mom and Dad in that respect. They were very understanding.

I am finally shedding my locks. I give no reason for it.

To see the after-effects visit my Facebook Album(public): http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=126661&id=549530288&l=0832d239de