Archive of: 2015
![How to get a head in life](/perch/resources/holi-head-w600h400.jpg)
How to get a head in life
14 April 2015
The headline that is getting people talking informs us that the world’s first full body transplant – or looked at the other way, the sewing of one person’s head onto another person’s body – could take place in just a couple of years.
![Hair today, gone tomorrow?](/perch/resources/princely-beard-w600h400.jpg)
Hair today, gone tomorrow?
06 March 2015
This sartorial statement is traditional among warrior groups throughout the sub-continent, most famously the Punjabi Sikhs, who cut neither beard nor hair, keeping the latter neatly trussed up in a turban.
![No time off for the Holy Cow](/perch/resources/esteemed-domkeys-w600h400.jpg)
No time off for the Holy Cow
02 February 2015
Let’s have a big round of applause for A.K. Verma, who was until last week an employee of the Indian Central Public Works Department.
![Hawaiin burghers vote to hold the mayo](/perch/resources/religious-lady-w600h400.jpg)
Hawaiin burghers vote to hold the mayo
29 January 2015
American Hindus are feeling proud these days: just before Christmas last year the U.S. Senate confirmed Hindu-American Dr. Vivek Murthy to be the U.S. Surgeon General.