Kapil Sibal is certainly the most sought after minister by Indian Media. And perhaps he is the most misunderstood too. Now his problem is that he has to battle two problems at once. First, every statement of his gets the limelight, and then everyone misunderstands it. Poor chap!
Recently he created a row to raise JEE cut off. But now he says that he has been misquoted. Now this has happened a way too many times for me to not draw any conclusion out of it.
So here is my conclusion:-
Mr. Sibal is a lawyer by profession. In fact he is a master of presenting cases which explains why every time when congress confronts an unrelenting quagmire, he is the one who comes to rescue the sinking ship.
This essentially proves that certainly, in most of the cases, he knows what he is talking; rather, he knows what he is mystifying.
Somebody please prove me wrong!
Goofy (Guest Author)
The fundamental source of poor email style is the practice of quoting the entire message you’re replying to. If that’s what you do, then it doesn’t matter whether you put your response at the top or bottom. In fact, if you’re going to quote the entire message, top-posting probably is better. But both are poor form.
Writing an email is like writing an article. Only quote the relevant parts, interspersing your new remarks between the quoted passages. Don’t quote anything at all from the original message if you don’t have to.
Forwarding is not replying. If you’re forwarding an entire message, sure, add your own remarks at the top, as a preface. But the idea that each new reply in a thread ought to contain the entirety of each previous message in the thread is silly, wasteful, distracting, and unnecessary. The point of quoting isn’t to maintain a self-contained copy of the entire thread in each single message; the point is to provide context for your own remarks.
Does it take more time to edit the portions of quoted text included in your reply? Yes. So does spell-checking and proofreading. It also takes time to shower and brush your teeth each day.
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HARINDERJIT SINGH
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