We Indians are a noisy lot

Well written post sir. All of us would've experienced at least one of the incidents at one time or another. When I tell my family/friends to maintain silence/put mobile phones in silent mode/not to talk in loud voice in public places, they look at me like I'm an alien. Some times they even go to the extent of saying that I always keep complaining when I go out with them and I'm anti-socialdoh1

 

Dear LN
Yet another fabulous piece from your magical keyboard!
Once the famous founder editor of Kumudam, SAP Annamalai, writing in the pseudonym of Arasu answered a question whether it would not be better if we stopped making all the noise in Temple rituals like other religions, he answered in a monosyllabic negative. I agree with him too. I have visited Sabari Malai for twelve years. The crescendo that is reached when the Jothi is sighted is an experience that cannot be explained. If I think of it even now, my hairs stand on an end! Imagine a million people shouting in chorus Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa. How can I ever describe it!

Once my grand daughter asked me a question that when so much of sound was heard when Rajni Kanth moved his finger in movies, how was it that we could not hear any sound when our huge globe was rotating at over 1000 mph! I told her that it was possibly causing more noise than the human hearing spectrum could perceive. I have seen some ultrasonic gadgets that caused the rodents to flee. We cannot hear a thing when it is switched on but the rodents shiver and shrivel on hearing it! I presume that even silence produces a sound which our ears cannot catch. I have heard poets talking of a 'deafening silence'!

That train journey episode was hilarious! I could only recall Mr.Bean's train journey with his co-passenger reading a book and breaking into uncontrollable laughter every second. It was probably a novel of PG Wodehouse! I must say this about talking on mobile phones. People who are short of hearing tend to imagine that every one around suffers a similar malady and talk loudly so that they won't miss a word.

We have this natural tendency to view with suspicion any conversation that is conducted in whispers. They may be actually engaged in discussing a profound subject but we tend to consider it as some kind of conspiracy being hatched! Noise is indicative of transparency in our dealings. When a chap talks in phone in whispers, the people around him strain their ears to catch what he is saying. When he talks loudly people not only lose interest in his conversation but also brand him as a nuisance!
Sri