It is tough for us Indian’s to write ‘Proper’ sentences in the
English language. It is painful sometimes to see your colleagues, friends, and your
own self struggle to compose error free communication. And I am not
talking about spelling mistakes but words, sentences and paragraphs that make
no sense or mean literally the opposite of what the writer wishes to convey.
I wonder why is it that English came to be the language of
choice for business communication. One apparent reason could be the rise of
personal computers, which are used to compose messages. Despite the
availability of delete and backspace buttons we end up writing in a language
that is not ours. Our minds are not wired to write in the Queen’s language.
However if you are reading this the chances are your PC only has Roman letters
for inputs and not Devanagari or any other Indian language. Mobiles, with
virtual key pads are lucky as the software now enables choice between different
input languages but form factor has an equally detrimental impact on whatever
language you want to write in.
