finally, an admin comment ... i don't know where the issue of vendetta came from...i own the iambic pentameter comment, ..i admit..but it WAS said in jest..and in no way as a personal insult..which is how it is being portrayed...it was an SNL spoof moment!!
a forum is a place to exchange ideas..i have read posts on this site before...and what prompted me to join IF was..pardon the self-made vocabulary here..the total "archaicness" of some of the ideas expressed...one can sit passive and just read..or one can interact and exchange ideas and learn/take in something new!!!and while in no way were personal potshots taken at any time....i did note that contrary opinions were often being suppressed, or told off on many occasions, and this was to others..which also i had read in mild disgust!!
priya..we are all adults here and we know the rules ..in life and otherwise..there HAS to be room for free speech..that is the definition of a forum...is it not!! unless it has become a caesarean mockery?
if everyone had to agree with everything one said..this would be a boring world, with bland colourless palettes..and that is what was happening!!
these discussions are far more lively, thought provoking for writers from both opinion sides than the bland yes sirjee type comments.. so feel free to pull apart my thoughts or opinions on any topic on this forum...u may not agree and i respect that...but i do NOT..under any circumstance take it personally..
remember..u guys are entities in space...not my friends, not my family..whose opinions i cherish..
and i have to say...what a joy it was to meet some like minded free thinkers and make friends..a purpose of the forum accomplished...non??
criticize, jest..don't be malicious..ramas /raksha could have written to anyone of us and asked us ..and we would have all shouted from here to antartica..that NO..it wasn't personal, but an attempt to add woefully bereft comedy into a situation wherein one could then take a joke and run with it..
did any1 not visualize this scenario...a mock abhi-simi skit..or an anuj-anita sequence??
lets keep to the topic at hand..but please lets not forget, there is enough room for humour and room for constructive criticism...
i end with a malayalam proverb-"Irumbum Vidhyayum irikke kedum " -the gist of which is-"iron and knowledge both rust with disuse"