Don’t judge a cranium by its covering: As hair today can be gone tomorrow, phalacrosis intolerance is unacceptable

Heads that shine may be fine — but only for some, it seems. Just last week, the flamboyant cricketer Hardik Pandya uploaded a photo on social media revealing a minutely stubbly albeit not entirely glabrous pate that got rapturous approval from his wife and also garnered over 1.28 million likes. Yet, a Mumbai man who hid his baldness under a wig has been recently slapped with a breach of trust case by his newly wed wife, who avers that had she known of his depilated scalp, she would not have agreed to marry him.

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While such cases have been reported abroad too, this bride may have been inspired by the hit Bollywood comedy last year centred on phalacrosis intolerance in which the screen couple did end up divorcing. But, hopefully, this real-life pair will get the film’s underlying message that hair-splitting about appearances is unnecessary.


Given that sports stars do opt for hairless hairstyles, it is unfortunate that an artificial intelligence (AI)-aided camera used by a Scottish football club to track the ball during games focused on a referee’s bald pate instead, last week. How programmers failed to pass on the knowledge of the difference between a smooth, rounded cranium and an inflated leather sphere is worth investigating. They had no reason to feel apprehensive about AI getting a head of itself.