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Boost your confidence, master your thoughts, pick up a pen, and start writing.

CJ: Shoeb Hamid

Wed, Sep 06, 2006 00:00:00 IST

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EVERYBODY IS A born writer and nobody is a dumb dog. People write millions of messages on the walls of their mind. But sometimes they just can’t find the ink and even if they do they are unable to find the pen. Do u have a problem with grammar? Well, thank you, good is it to hear that or it is good to hear that. Bad grammar can be a good style when the readers easily understand what they want to understand. And that is how you can be a good speaker. Try to forget rules for sometime, your incoherent thoughts will take new shapes and will come out of you as strings of music, wavy and psychedelic.

Unlike speaking or say public speaking, writing is much easier. You don’t have to lay stress on your vocal chords, put a nice expression on your face or reduce your pupils to scintillating balls that force the listeners down the alleys of your perceived reality. Writing is fun. Words are like crazy balls and they do bounce. Fix them up with glue and you will be surprised at the creation. If you are a skeptic just leave the idea; you will not be able to write. It is complicated. Finding proper words that best describe an event or expression, applying rules of grammar, cross-checking the denoted and connoted meanings, context, space and time when you are writing and from where you are writing, probable effects, your audience, channel, editing filters and gatekeepers. Forget it.

Communication is a highly complex organism and has a mind of its own. It recognises and understands people and delivers right messages to the right people. While doing its job it’s specific and selective. Sometimes the address is poorly written and communication just can’t reach its receiver.

The message is delicate like butter and weak as some earthly creature that is vulnerable to infections. Carry it too long and some part will just melt away. Its conception is more like weaving a dream; the subconscious mind nicely puts it down like a rich silk carpet with a lot of patterns and coloured threads. What you dream about, other people might as well. It is not a coincidence but one obvious probability. And when you weave a dream everybody likes to put a personal touch. So the rich carpet and coloured patterns would appear something else to other people, like fishes in a pool or say a flying elephant pulling a jumbo jet with its overhanging pointed tail and grizzly whiskers.

As a serious writer you will get a good spanking and will have to attend extra classes to avoid the ‘I’ factor. But then it doesn’t matter if you really have something to say and remember, that you won’t be the only one to decide that something. When you have a say make sure that you say what you want. No doubt critics will say it is unprofessional, they earn their bread by it. At the same time you may get an invitation from advocate journalists.

Professional writing is somewhat a challenging job. Why? First thing, your message is on sale and second thing your message is on sale. Any write up, which is on sale, has to be polished keeping in mind the taste of the readers. You start with a dream and conclude with a tale. In between you reveal a little of what you did last summer, your phony idealism, some twisted remarks, how you would rule if you were a king and what is the latest at Shoppers Stop that caught your attention. But, take it as a suggestion, never ever underrate whatever text or message a professional has written. Consider one such writer, a propagandist, who spent three years on extensive research to make sure that writing the word ‘probably’ in the middle of his article would serve it better.

Writing is good and we all should encourage it. So, fill the tank of your pen; Get, Set and Go.

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	Sir, The railway should provide TTEs in train with electronic ticket checking machines, which should be connected to a central server which maintains all PNR data waiting list information of passengers.Several passenger cancel their ticket just minutes before the trains departure, which the TTEs misuse.If the ticket machine is introduced the TTEs would get the status of the vacant seat immediately and can provide seats to passengers on waiting list in transparent manner. Otherwise, huge sum of money has to be paid as briber to the TTEs for confirmation of a waiting list ticket.The Railway can also save tonnes of paper, costing crores of rupees, can increase the efficiency and reduce the workload of TTEs by introducing the machines.
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	In the written statement from the national insurance company deputy manager Mr Achari said the car in which we were travelling innova on 10/01/2008 Bangalore mysore,high in which we lost our only son never toppled after hitting from behind on the right side corner on the back bumper.All the evedence shows the truth all the photos taken just after the accident,he miss guide the lower court in pretext to save the insurance money.This remind me the case of Nanda B.M.W delhi in which all the effort were done to supress the truth,and what happen an amazing verdict given,i salute the judge and the respactive court they never let the truth down.Its a correct saying that BHAGWAN KE GHAR MEIN DAER HAI ANDHAR NAHI.......
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	We lost our only son in a car crash on jan 10/2008 on Bangalore mysore high way he was 3 years . A car over taking us at a high speed hitting from behind and the car in which we were was Innova, i was in the driving seat and the car toppled 6times in which my son and wife were thrown out. son died on the spot wife laying middel of the divider with face and neck injuried, we were 7 people in the car the other 3 went for the major OT.I had written to Prime minister and Karnataka C.M for couple of times. But i got the reply from PMO directing state goverment to take an action.after this i had written to Raj deep sar desai who forword my mail to citizen jounrlist. After the reply from PMO i had written to Karnataka C.M mentioning the REF NUM OF PMO LETTER. and within 24 hrs got the reply saying for Necessary action. The criminal is out on the bail. I have no words to express my Gratitude to our Prime Minister. I had written to all the departments from state to central and the ministery of law and justice. The only reply was from PMO. thanks to Raj deep sar desai who forword my mail to C.J.
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