Letters, Words and Action

Flowery and emotional words, sent in a traditional cover is news more often in this part of the world, especially when the state is losing. Locally we fall for it and the recipient of the letter, probably never opens the cover or LOL and dumps. If someone cares to find out the effectiveness of this ancient communication in modern times by correlating the number of letters to the action taken, the graph may have never started.

Probably it is an exercise to give the classical language some space, but again may be the letter is in a foreign English. Anyway by now everyone knows that the 'Classical' is a classic joke, but that is another matter.

A Dinamalar editor is recently arrested for displaying photo's of actresses and tarnishing their image!. Probably the Government here is learning from Rajapakse how to control the media. Probably the actresses are taller than the Gods for when they are tarnished, even Baba keeps mum.

We have a wordsmith at the helm, who is a founder of a couple of dailies and is a renowned orator and journalist first, politician next. if he writes letters, even if they are ineffective it is because of a habit. He is yet to come out of the Anna era. But then what is this new habit of arresting fellow word spreaders just because his other family is hurt?

Competition and fear of repression makes the others keep quiet and that encourages more such action. Habits are thus born.

When a Dinakaran editor was targeted for a similar case, Dinamalar freaked out. And now it is in the receiving end. But then what is a media or a film personality without a controversy? The whole affair helps to dilute the central Mullai snub. Thanks Buvaneshwari.

And we have many other important things to worry about , for example - what is the answer to the question asked in Velli parisu in Kalaignar TV?

Habits die hard.