from the master’s desk
by Sunil Ganu
“Words ..words .. words … I am so sick of words,” sang Eliza in My Fair Lady!
I’m not! Sick, that is!
Words to me are the best gifts that can be exchanged, the most valuable objects friends
can cherish for years. They say so much, they express exactly what you feel and want to
say!
(“Exactly” : now there is a word that creates problems for many of our youngsters who have
grown up on a steady diet of French fries, litres of Coke, and images from across oceans
that they have never crossed in their lives!)
Our youngsters today use words lightly, just as they use up data bytes paid for by parents!
Words seem to have lost their import, their weightage, their immediacy! And this apparent
fall in value comes from the fact that every person in this country uses too many of them!
We are a verbose nation. And we do