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Imagine your nose missing out from the anatomical list of your body. Several beautiful proverbs such as ‘Naak par makhi na baithne dena’, ‘Naak mein dum karna’, ‘poke one’s nose’, ‘look down one’s nose’, ‘paying through your nose’ would have never seen the light of the day. When a wife buys a diamond ‘koka’ (nose-pin), husbands have to pay through their nose. A report in a Scottish daily has said with the use of an artificial nose being developed, doctors will soon be able to smell out diseases such as diabetes, liver disease, yellow fever and tuberculosis. But some doctors have
already got a special nose. As a patient enters the clinic, the doctor
calculates the patient’s paying capacity from the smell emanating from
the patient. One such doctor after verifying the paying capacity of a
patient asked the patient, "If there is an urgency to operate on
you, will you be able to pay for it?" The patient replied,
"Doctor Sahib, if I cannot pay, would the operation be urgent in
that case?" |
Pascal
had said if Cleopatra’s nose had been a little shorter, the face of
the world would have been very different. The nose has through ages had
its own anatomical, historical and psychological importance. Had Laxman
not taken a swipe at Soorpnakha’s nose, The Ramayana would not
have taken the course it did.