The strand that arrives before its time
You find it in the mirror on an ordinary morning. One white hair, then three, then a cluster at your temple before you have turned twenty-five. The first instinct is medical, thyroid, vitamin B12, genetics. Those answers are real and worth checking. But they sit at the surface of a question that runs much deeper in Indian thought: why does one body age faster than its chronological years, and what does that acceleration mean for the self living inside it?
