Re: [nukkad] Vadodara

["RaginiC" <>]

If this piece is read as stand alone...i.e without any reference to 
context...it is
just a great piece of read ...to the end.

and i read it as stand-alone.
It was like smooth mellow waves.
ragini


Sai :
> A lawyer's 'style' of writing is contrived, at best, and
> holier-than-thou, at worst. A natural style of writing is something
> that everyone DOES possess before being indoctrinated into the style
> of their professions. I am sure you had a more pleasant and humane
> style of writing before being sucked into the 'chakravyuha' otherwise
> known as law.
>
> In writing like a lawyer, you are imitating the millions that became
> lawyers before you.
>
> However, your style of writing in poetry (or should it be called
> writing in rhyme?) is something that no one else has displayed with
> such verve and originality. Maybe something a little less
> straitjacketed than lawyers point form writing would suit you a little
> better?
>
> Sai
>
> P.S. To digress in this a little, EVERYONE that is embraced by a
> profession starts to speak, think and write in that jargon. You can
> see it among the doctors - when they use Latin words to describe
> diseases and ailments, or that judges and lawyers use while conversing
> in session, or that parliamentarians use when debating (while in
> session), or *gasp* software enginners use while speaking to others
> from the same profession. This is even evident when teenagers use SMS
> jargon - so that they can feel ''in' with a crowd that their parents
> are not a part of. Similarly for Chartered Accountants, government
> officials, scientists of various flavours and even the people that
> deliver dabbas for lunch in Mumbai!
>
> However, above and beyond all this, there is a basic language that
> can/should be used when communicating with a lay person.
>
> It is sheer genius when a person that is steeped in a certain
> profession is able to rise above the profession and
> write/speak/communicate in a language that is understandable to a
> common man - i.e. someone NOT in that profession/clique. Witness the
> beauty of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, or any number of
> books by Isaac Asimov on science. I am currently reading a book by
> Stevn Levitt called Freakonomics. I must say that it is very
> entertainingly written - and his ability to think 'outside the box'
> shows through very well.
>
> In a nutshell - be yourself no matter what they say (to steal a phrase
> from Sting's song 'An Englishman in New York').


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