Yello people...
As the above line has probably already told you, I'm not that big on Queen's English, whatever the title of this blog may say about that. Yes, I do believe that Queen's English is definitely a far better idea than what the Yanks call E-N-G-L-I-S-H, and I still spell colour as C-O-L-O-U-R.
But then again, all languages do adapt and change, and I guess it is always better to go with the flow. 200 years ago, some poor grammarian would probably have been tearing his hair over mistakes that are correct language today. If we had listened to them, we'd still be stuck with "thou art correct", rather than the infinitely more convenient "a-OK".
Think of the letters that we've stopped writing. When I was in school, the idea of a pen friend was still alive, albeit tenuously. Today, we don't even have email friends - they've all been replaced by Facebook contacts, who tweet sweet nothings on our "Wall". Postage Stamps lie forgotten.
Then, there is the salutation in the letters (even the rare ones that we have to write). I remember my school English teacher telling us the perfect old British trained style of "Thanking you, I shall remain, yours faithfully/truly". That got shortened to "Yours faithfully", which has now given way to the more robotic "Warm Regards". Combined with the electronic world that guarantees no human contact between the alphabets and the writer, and the dehumanization of our literary world is complete.
But I digress. After all, isn't the aim of a first post an introduction to the writer and the blog itself. Assuming that it indeed is so, Let me start by fulfilling my burdens:
I am a just-out-of-teens college student studying Engineering in Bangalore. Reading and Debating (PD to be precise, Asians style PD to be annoyingly so) being my passions (would that be too heavily loaded a word, I wonder?), that will probably be a major part of most posts here. Before you get carried away, let me assure you that I'm not an expert at either, nor am I someone whose opinions you should consider heavily. I guess, being an amateur, this will be a compilation of the aches, falls and bruises that we'll be learning from, along with some ideas from practicing with other novices.
Happy reading. Please do respond. This isnt a monologue!
