A drop from the ocean

Hey Mitra, did you smile today? If not then, let me give you a reason to: You are the chosen one to live this beautiful life, once and for all! Ahh, hope that worked, Let's start our talk. Why?  An illustration  If I go on telling you that "Why" is such a magnificent word which can turn the "impossible" into "I'm possible". Would you believe me? Maybe not, so let me illustrate to you a scenario to keep my point in a  clear manner.  Imagine yourself sitting on your couch, watching Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah and you suddenly start to crave for your favourite samosa as the Zomato ad pops us in the break. You just think of going to  Ratan's Samosa Shop which is just 100m away from your home.  But it's raining heavily outside. Would you step outside and get some samosas or continue watching TV (cursing Zomato )? When asked to a group of students, 97% of them agreed to stay at home while the remaining were hardcore samosa lovers. Now imagine...

 Hey Mitra! How did your day go? Mine was quite shocking. Why? Let's start our talk... An Ironic Task While me and my sister were trying to write a script, suddenly the idea of writing it in Hindi struck our minds and why not, after all, it's our mother tongue, right?  My sister started to speak while I jotted it down. She spoke efficiently; I interrupted and told her that the language she was speaking in, wasn't Hindi but Hinglish actually, as she still used some words from English. So now the task was to speak in Hindi entirely for 5 min and astonishingly she couldn't complete 2 min. The table turned down to me and I failed at this task terribly as well. How many minutes can you speak entirely in Hindi as a native speaker? Languages Family Tree I had been shaken by what had just happened, the language to which we proudly proclaimed to be our mother language was slipping from our tongues! We had forgotten the meaning of certain words as well. Hindi, without which it wa...