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Originally posted by: sashashyam
You, young lady, are a revelation! I have rarely read a comment in this forum that is so clear and coherent, so well worded, and with such impeccable grammar and syntax. I know I sound like an English language schoolteacher, but I am a purist in such matters, and the kind of stuff that abounds here and elsewhere these days sets my teeth on edge. You were like a good inch of soothing Sensodyne!😉👏
So it is I who should thank you. I liked some parts in your post very much - either for being so sensible or so neatly put or both - and I have highlighted them in dark blue. My supplementary comments are in red.
Shyamala (Aunty? but whatever you like, my dear)Well, as she is the heroine, the ironclad rule is that she will keep getting into dangerous situations, plaguing the hero in the process, but will never actually get bumped off, this being neither Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet.Our memories are fallible and selective many a time, so Ananya could have filtered it out because it didn't really add up. A very neat and telling formulation that is spot on.Yes, and I only hope she does not blab about it with the wrong person within earshot.An airline company can be a front for many criminal activities, above all for a drug smuggling racket which would be, taking volume vs value, both very easy to handle and extremely lucrative. Next, the proceeds of such a racket can and are used to fund terrorist activities. I think that the bottom line is a planned terrorist attack - perhaps using bioweapons like anthrax or even a smuggled miniature nuclear weapon, thought that is more dicey because of the need for bulky shielding and complex timers. Remember that at the end of the donor heart episode, Akash's superior talks of thousands or lakhs of lives being at stake. It has to be something on a mass scale, not just RDX explosions, unless one is thinking of dozens of them countrywide.
Thank you very, very much, my dear. My posts are an acquired taste, so I am always touched by such warm praise from a new reader.
As for your well taken point re: standalone threads being far more accessible, I would be ready to do separate threads for Airlines,as I used to do so for Jodha Akbar till April last. After that, I had no interest in posting episode analyses here as I did not like the way the place was run. I did 20 consecutive episode analyses for all the 20 episodes of Yudh, however.
Now that I am being asked to do standalone episode analyses for Airlines, by you and some others, the problem is that the powers that be here have a penchant for pulling me up for anything and nothing, invariably taking me unawares. The last such rap on the knuckles was for discussing Akbar's siege of Chittor on, if I am not wrong, Mandy's thread. Now I did not know that historical discussions have, in that forum, the Jodha Akbar one, to be confined to a single designated thread. But ignorance of the law is not a valid defence in the courts, and similarly, ignorance of the rules would not be a valid defence in that forum either, I suppose. So, bingo, I was socked with another increase in my warning level, and now I cannot do stand alone threads.
This would normally not bother me much, as I was not interested in posting episode analyses on anything, but now Khushi has got me into this and I am stuck. I am afraid you will have to catch my takes on her threads for the present, but I promise to PM you, so at least you will not miss them.
Thank you very much for your kind reply. I am going to call you Shyamala aunty haq se from now on. 😃
And I find myself blushing endlessly on reading the first part of your post. 😳😳😳 It's a huge compliment, because I have always admired your diction and the sparkling humour in your posts. I especially look out for Shakespearean references; I think you referred to Natasha as a 'harpy' in one of your posts and I was endlessly tickled by that. Each and every word in your post is carefully thought of and used, as if it were a magician daintily casting a spell with her words. And your analyses are so delightfully coherent and thought-provoking! So a compliment like this coming from a wordsmith like you is just...I am going with a word that is hopelessly misused and employed repetitively by my generation- AWESOME!!! 😛😉
Your observations on the kind of shady and illegal activities that can take place in a private airline company, and its probable implications for national security are very valid. As you have rightly pointed out, Akash seems to be dealing with something of an unforeseeable magnitude. (Biological warfare? Interesting!😊)I can only hope that the plot showcases all the requisite elements in a juicy way and gives us viewers something memorable regarding Akash's espionage activities.
I used to be a silent reader on the JA forum, and I was wondering where you'd been. I don't watch it nowadays, though. I also get your hesitation about making separate threads after getting your fingers burnt I can relate perfectly to that because I went through a similarly unpleasant experience with a global moderator in my early days on IF. I am probably going to get a rap on my knuckles myself for saying this outright, but some people take their roles way too seriously on IF😃 I've been here since 2009; and still many rules still do not make sense to me at all. They are more than often ambiguous and illogical. I get the obvious ones against bashing and inflammatory stuff, but the others, no.🥱
Thanks for offering to PM me. That's very sweet of you. And now that I know where I can find your analyses, I am content. 😳 Take care :)
And silly me, I forget to introduce myself- I am Amrutha😊
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