{"id":414,"date":"2007-10-13T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/10\/13\/enhancement\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T07:30:57","slug":"enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/13\/enhancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been informed by The Only Authority That Matters that I have a (most) kissworthy mouth.<\/p>\n

It is always good to have a kissworthy anything. If it is a mouth, so much the better. However, to put forth a Ronald Bailey-esque full disclosure, I must confess that this is not my original mouth.<\/p>\n

From 2000 to 2003, my mouth was under the care and supervision of one Dr. Jaina of Connaught Place. Dr Jaina (who was also my father’s orthodontist) took X-rays, locally anaesthetised my mouth, made casts of my mouth, and finally fitted braces to it with dental glue (which I still maintain is the most awesome psychotropic substance in the world). The net effect of all this was that over the next three years, the gap in my teeth was closed off, my chin was pulled in, and my mouth contracted.<\/p>\n

Now, uptil now, my only reaction to all this orthodontistry was to complain about how Dr. Jaina had deprived me of my family heritage by pulling my chin back. The family chin is truly prodigious. It juts out from our faces like India into the Indian Ocean, or Utility Building into the Bangalore skyline. This is especially useful when we have to stick our chins out stubbornly (and stubbornness pretty much runs in the family).<\/p>\n

So having the chin pulled back and curtailed from its original magnificence was a source of much annoyance. Especially because Bhavya<\/a> used to keep bragging about his own, untouched chin. Tragic, I tell you. Tragic.<\/p>\n

But anyway. I went off, and forgot all about my brief spell with braces until the topic of my kissworthy mouth was raised. Now, this has raised ethical and moral questions. To wit, can my mouth be considered kissworthy considering it is not in its original and pristine state, but has been modified with modern technology? Is it even a real<\/em> mouth?<\/p>\n

The deepest and most haunting question of all, of course, is this: am I now to mouths what Pamela Anderson is to breasts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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