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Reflections....

Yes…. Jayanth, did tell me that I should start writing… but but what to write?........why to, whom to??? He still may be remembering the bygone days when both were fond of wrinting specially poems... but how to convince him that the poet in me is dead long back....but like a ghost, the addiction to writing still haunts me... often... that is all... no more... and it seems he is more impressed with my English than kannada…. should I feel happy as his observation as a compliment or should I feel bad for indirectly telling me that my kannada is not that good… he did not exactly use the same words. But I take it… why? Because it is not that jaynths comment that bothers me…it is rather my own confidence in my own faltering expression in my own mother tongue. That really worries me…yes my dictionary of Kannada words are too limited and I just can't take freedom like his encyclopedic knowledge of words…He even has a word for afternoon sleep! Is it Kannada or Sanskrit? I don’t know… I don’