More brawn than brain

When we were in college, my old school mate who used to say that students 'these days are very thin framed and short'. He also gave an example of his elder brother and said that in those years, a student studying in 12th standard used to have sideburns or even moustache :o I had moustache (if you can call that) only during my post graduation :( I also think that we paid little attention to how we look or how we dressed. It looks surprising that in Casablanca which was made in 1942, in one of the better scenes Ilsa does talk of putting 'braces on her teeth ten years ago'. So people took care on how they look even at that time, I thought. Then I realised that even my sister had put braces on her teeth and remember that my cousin who used to make fun of my sister's friend who had put braces on her teeth, years if not decades back. With more money 'flowing', people seem to be concentrating more on how they look or how their sons/daughters look.

I read an article in Hindu about 1966 Indian Davis Cup team felicitated and surprised to read Jaideep Mukherjee's comment

Tennis as a sport has become very physical. Rod Laver was just five foot eight while now you have the likes of Cilic who is six-six.

Contrary to what my schoolmate told, I see lot of kids these days going to gymnasium at a very early age and nowadays kids are pretty tall. I feel that they are not well built but they are often lanky. The surprise part of the quote that I was surprised was Rod Laver, easily the best player of all time, was of the same height as me. It is not accidental or by mistake that I mentioned 'kids'. Yes, boys are tall or as I said lanky and try their level best to improve their biceps and get all this 6-pack, lunch-pack etc, girls seem to have an exaggerated breast, wear contact lenses whether needed or not or wear stylish glasses etc but it has NO CORELATION with their sensibilities, forget skill. They are more often haughty, arrogant and more importantly, idiotic. I feel that the girls especially are leading towards a degenerated society. As an aside, I would be interested how many in current day society are really 'vegetarians'. Tamil Nadu used to almost compete with Gujarat in an informal 'prohibition' of non-vegetarian food but those are now stories 'decades back'. Javagal Srinath was told by Wasim Akram to go towards meat to improve power. Power is after all critical.