tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post3810511189242452934..comments2024-03-27T13:58:06.458+05:30Comments on Suvro Chatterjee bemused: Taking stock, post the 100,000 milestoneSuvro Chatterjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01027202980259279420noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-74682008160998484822012-04-25T12:32:05.120+05:302012-04-25T12:32:05.120+05:30You are welcome to 'bug' me as much as you...You are welcome to 'bug' me as much as you like, Urna: I long for comment writers like you, who have something like brains to think with! My earnest thanks for this comment of yours, as well as the one on the previous post. It is affectionate gratitude from old boys and girls that makes my job most worthwhile, and as I have said often before, I cannot stop wondering why the boys are far more avid comment writers than the girls! Anyway, thanks for noticing that I am much more tolerant than most of my detractors. As Helen Keller famously said, The biggest pity is not that some people don't have eyes, but that most people have eyes and cannot use them! Evidently you are one of the few who can. All I ask from critics is politeness and strong reason and facts to back up their points of view... and most, having neither, cannot imagine that criticism can mean anything besides abuse. This is a disease that has become particularly widespread these days, what with 'technical' education superseding all use of mind and serious grounding in the niceties of language. Most people, including 'educated' ones, can neither think nor write, so all they can do is either stay quiet or hurl silly abuse...Suvro Chatterjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01027202980259279420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-32107231368483316082012-04-24T16:32:00.736+05:302012-04-24T16:32:00.736+05:30Dear Sir,
Bugging you again (but maybe I don'...Dear Sir,<br /><br />Bugging you again (but maybe I don't bug you as much as I ought to)! While writing a comment for your previous post an hour or so ago, I couldn't help but notice the counter that registers the number of visits and what I saw made me both elated and awestruck - 100,607 visits! Congratulations, Sir, it's a well-deserved achievement, I must say! One of the nicest things about your blog is that you allow for views that do not necessarily agree with your own, even those, as I have noticed, which do not cater to the same level of tolerance as you might show people and expect the same from them. Once again, Sir, congratulations and best wishes for more such wonderful and relevant reads to follow.<br /><br />Love and best wishes,<br /><br />UrnaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-79416271795411904242012-04-21T21:19:14.413+05:302012-04-21T21:19:14.413+05:30That was a nice moment of the counter crossing ove...That <i>was</i> a nice moment of the counter crossing over, and I was waiting for that and for your post, and then now I'm wondering what to write as a comment. <br /><br />I have noticed that the blog counter is showing more visitors and within 24 hours there are over 100 visits on some days...which also does make me wonder why people don't comment more often. But what you write is disturbing quite often, and really does require a lot of mental courage and honesty (among other things) to take in and digest, and then 'light pierces the darkness'...and one waits to see what will be while changing inside and on the out. That said, I don't know why people don't comment on the 1000s and millions of different things you write about. Sometimes this does make me grump but maybe it's as you keep telling me, 'thinking and writing are not the same, Shilpi!'<br /><br />I hope you write for many more years here and elsewhere, and you winning the lottery would have been nice because you wouldn't have to teach those who don't want to be taught and maybe you could get some of them very young if that would work (I really think that the kids would be different if you could get them when they were toddlers!) - and you wouldn't have to deal with the kind of people you do, and could get a break too.<br /><br />I rather liked the memory that your ex-student narrated - about the last lesson you taught the young boys in that old school. It was very vivid and made me feel very silent inside as I watched across the years and through space. I'm also very, very glad that those cretins who have nothing worthwhile to say did not say anything for your previous post....<br /><br />That's all for now, I guess.Shilpihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03106170029106184978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-68620573263882556672012-04-21T19:13:03.791+05:302012-04-21T19:13:03.791+05:30Pardon my limited vocabulary. What I meant was ...Pardon my limited vocabulary. What I meant was 'fierce and uncompromising'. Ferocity kind of felt like the right word to go with.<br /><br />Regards,<br />ArnabAkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18025475963451009191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-48921015649081776662012-04-19T09:43:27.087+05:302012-04-19T09:43:27.087+05:30Dear Sir,
The ancient saying you mentioned in the...Dear Sir,<br /><br />The ancient saying you mentioned in the last post did make sense to me in theory. But I haven't seen too many people being able to apply it in real life. Seems quite difficult. But now I do see how you do it. I hope you teach (as a job now and later maybe as a hobby) for many more years.<br /><br />Sincerely<br />Nishant.Nishant Kamathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-28289990324140440272012-04-19T00:14:30.478+05:302012-04-19T00:14:30.478+05:30Dear Sir,
As you said earlier, you have written a ...Dear Sir,<br />As you said earlier, you have written a lot for the past few years and I should keep on exploring the blog to find more interesting stuff. First of all let me thank you for writing such wonderful posts and let me appreciate the introspection and philosophizing of all those who pour in their thoughtful comments in your blog. I wish I could enjoy the company of even a fraction of such wonderful people at my present workplace.<br />I remember when my father came to enrol my name for your tuition classes; you had remarked that I would learn much more than just English language. And I remember how often you told us about the qualities that a civilized person must have. After ten years I still remember them and wonder how true your words were and how lethargic we are to change for the better. In this context I just remembered a trivial incident during my college days. (I studied in the electrical engineering department.) During my B. Tech days, I noticed that in our lecture galleries, even after the classes were over, the lights and fans remained switched on for the entire day. What a sheer waste of energy!!! So out of my own interest I made it a habit to switch off all the lights and fans after the last class was over. Some of my friends taunted it as a publicity stunt, some said that this strange urge would soon die out; others even slandered me saying that it was a cheap effort to appease the professors. And these engineers are tagged as ‘Dedicated to the service of the nation.’<br />I appreciate how well you have held on to your principles and maintained your moral standards to the highest degree. I wish you all the best for your future and hope you continue to inspire us with your thoughtful blogs. <br />With warm regards,<br />Abhishek DasAbhishek Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14599201965832710886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30819742.post-16432443666899905202012-04-18T15:53:09.927+05:302012-04-18T15:53:09.927+05:30Sir,
Shubho Nabobarsho, once again. The spring ha...Sir,<br /><br />Shubho Nabobarsho, once again. The spring has matured into summer and a hundred thousand greetings to you.<br />The internet dishes out so much every day and hardly anything that is new is also original and thought-inspiring. it is a huge recycle bin and much of it is recycled trash. <br />I hardly visit the net and have some sort of a phobia towards going online. It is lethargy and mental sloth that prevents me from visiting you more regularly. Also, I crave to hear your voice. I am proud that I escaped being in school without you-one of the few lucky things in my life.<br />It has been long since we last met. I cooked a sublime prawn curry the other day and thought that though my English may not have amused you much, this would definitely have bowled you over.<br />I remember calling you right afteor my ICSE results were out and telling you my marks. You congratulated me and said, 'Jaak taholey tokey literate bola choley'. I was nine short of a hundred! Years down the line, I read your blog and the sheer velocity of your vocabulary overwhelms me. The ability to be so nimble and precise with language, to avoid clutter, verbosity, periphrasis, error and to simultaneously thoughtful and substantial is the rarest of skill. <br />It is not sychophancy on my part when I say this. I am in the business of teaching English and I know that most of our scholars can't use the perfect tense correctly! Circumlocution and wooliness is another hell altogether.<br />The English language lives in very few places in our country. Educomp, Liqvid and NIIT have transformed it into something between moronic quizzes and graphic design. The English language, in the spirit of Mill, Orwell, Russell and Churchill, lives in your blog. Viva!<br /><br />Araniaranibanerjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08978301292838645138noreply@blogger.com