While the wounds inflicted by sword heal up after sometime those caused by tongue are seldom cured. The quality of public debate in this country has deteriorated instead of showing any improvement over the years which is unfortunate to say the least. More often than not, pandemonium is the order of the day in our assemblies which present a spectacle of fish market rather than a public forum which is supposed to comprise serious-minded persons. The MNAs and the MPAs don’t mind using fisticuffs against one other on the slightest pretext.
The words used by our politicians against one another in the public meetings as well as in parliament leave much to be desired. More often than not, the speakers of the assemblies have to expunge them because they are unparliamentary.
In the Second World War, Hitler used to utter abusive words against Churchill. When the attention of the British prime minister was once invited by the newsmen towards the four-letter words often used by the German dictator against him he simply said that it appeared to him as if Hitler didn’t have good primary education. Once the then Soviet strongman Nikitia Khruschev while addressing the UN General Assembly thumped the rostrum with his moccasin and pointing out at the UN Secretary General labelled him as a dog in his speech. The UN Secretary General in those days was a thorough gentleman whose name was Dag Hammarskjold . When the newsmen drew his attention towards the abusive remark used by the Soviet leader against him in his speech the UN Secretary General said I could have replied him in the same language but I didn’t because I believe I am better educated than him. Unfortunately, we have not been able to send to our assemblies persons of the likes of these two gentlemen.
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