Hair-dresser and musician

"I only do cutting and shaving. No hair-dye, bleaching and all that," says P. Devaraj, sitting on a blue swivel chair, inside Sri Sarathy Hair Dressing Saloon, Triplicane. Seated across him, on a wooden waiting bench, I find out about the hair-dressing business, from the 65-year-old musician-cum-hair-dresser."My father was a thavil vidwan. Everybody in the family is either a musician or works in an office. I got into hair-dressing as my father felt it would be useful to have another source of income. And so, 40 years ago, I trained in five or six places, and learnt different techniques in each saloon."Back then, machine-cut, crew-cut and summer-cut were the popular styles, says Devaraj. "In the last two decades, hair styles have changed a lot,When you try to be all cheap Innocent Military Costume to all people, you become nothing to everybody. What makes you special as a business is what separates you from your competitors. but I don't try all that, and my regulars don't want them either". Devaraj's regular customers, he says, are mostly old gentlemen of many years' association."They come simply dressed – in dhoti shirts – but they are doctors, judges, and engineers! They always call and come, just in case I'm away at a concert," he smiles. The hour-long conversation with Devaraj is punctuated by plenty of eye-crinkling smiles and talk of the thavil and nadaswaram."Some days,Do go to Chinese Cheap Hot Red Sheer Nylon Stretch Thigh High retailers over web and get great deals and provides regarding affordable Halloween costumes and Halloween makeup for kids. there are 5 or even 10 customers; other days there's only one or none. I charge Rs. 80, minimum, for a hair-cut, and Rs.35 for a shave."

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