Standing here in this venerable and magnificent institution and advocating the demerits of joining a club might seem like a horrendous idea, but as master Yoda said - "Do or do not, there is no try!"
Marc Antony who bludgeoned the opponents on Caesar's funeral, was a sportsman, often indulging in debauchery and yet he is remembered for his most famous speech "Friends, Romans Countrymen! lend me your ear I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar."
Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King Jr., John F Kennedy, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Baba Ramdev, Anna Hazare, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav do you know what is common between them? They have the capacity to stir the masses by a simple speech, even by abhorring statements " Ladko se galti ho jati hai" They were never a part of any club, they were never bound by periodic meetings, they simply spoke what they wanted and when they wanted to, where they wanted to and how they wanted to . This is what we should strive for.
In a recent episode of "Last week tonight", John Oliver exposes the scandalous televangelists preaching Prosperity gospels disguised as sermons that could move a person thousands of miles away, suffering from terminal cancer, send his entire life's savings in the name of seed faith. This is the power or rather the misuse of free speech.
A meth chemist can move you to tears, an imp Lannister can win a battle, a Spartan can ignite 300 men, Nick Fury can assemble the avengers and the Joker can instigate the Batman, that is the true nature of speech and not something guided in different levels governed by a set of rules emphasizing on certain measurable parameters. Language, grammar, pauses, the use of grandiloquence, voice modulation, your dress, the time, the place is immaterial. What matters is the audience and only the audience, do you have the power to summon a tornado in their veins, do you have what it takes to stir them to such levels of rage or euphoria that they are just brimming with the storm within?
The point is true art is unleashed, ungoverned, unchecked and unsheathed, and public speaking is a ferocious art which is developed in the dungeons of untamed obstinate audience, where there is no decree no barriers no precedent
I would like to quote an excerpt from one of my favourite fantasy novel "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss, There is a girl Auri who brings three gifts for her sporadically visiting friend Kvothe. The dialogue goes like this -
Auri - I have an apple that thinks it is a pear," she said, holding it up. "And a bun that thinks it is a cat. And a lettuce that thinks it is a lettuce."
Thank you very much!
Marc Antony who bludgeoned the opponents on Caesar's funeral, was a sportsman, often indulging in debauchery and yet he is remembered for his most famous speech "Friends, Romans Countrymen! lend me your ear I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar."
Jawahar Lal Nehru India's first prime minister and a seasoned politician shook the entire nation at midnight over then prevalent radio and transistors Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King Jr., John F Kennedy, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Baba Ramdev, Anna Hazare, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav do you know what is common between them? They have the capacity to stir the masses by a simple speech, even by abhorring statements " Ladko se galti ho jati hai" They were never a part of any club, they were never bound by periodic meetings, they simply spoke what they wanted and when they wanted to, where they wanted to and how they wanted to . This is what we should strive for.
In a recent episode of "Last week tonight", John Oliver exposes the scandalous televangelists preaching Prosperity gospels disguised as sermons that could move a person thousands of miles away, suffering from terminal cancer, send his entire life's savings in the name of seed faith. This is the power or rather the misuse of free speech.
A meth chemist can move you to tears, an imp Lannister can win a battle, a Spartan can ignite 300 men, Nick Fury can assemble the avengers and the Joker can instigate the Batman, that is the true nature of speech and not something guided in different levels governed by a set of rules emphasizing on certain measurable parameters. Language, grammar, pauses, the use of grandiloquence, voice modulation, your dress, the time, the place is immaterial. What matters is the audience and only the audience, do you have the power to summon a tornado in their veins, do you have what it takes to stir them to such levels of rage or euphoria that they are just brimming with the storm within?
The point is true art is unleashed, ungoverned, unchecked and unsheathed, and public speaking is a ferocious art which is developed in the dungeons of untamed obstinate audience, where there is no decree no barriers no precedent
I would like to quote an excerpt from one of my favourite fantasy novel "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss, There is a girl Auri who brings three gifts for her sporadically visiting friend Kvothe. The dialogue goes like this -
