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The question is whether others will follow him.
Early this month the President suggested he be addressed as
“Sri” instead of the time-honoured “His Excellency” or
Honourable” and since then invitation cards have followed
the directive.
Decades after Independence, government correspondence and
public speeches made by politicians and officialdom are still
steeped in the language of flattery and deference.
Politicians have got used to bowing and scraping so much that
they regard the lingo as part of their status package.
Speeches can’t ever omit the initial references to, “Most
respected minister…”, “His Excellency Mr…” or
“Honourable Mantriji…” Not too long ago an advertisement
in Karnataka for the inauguration of a civic project listed
out dignitaries who would “grace the occasion”, and among
them was a “Worshipful Mayor”. Whether the last mentioned
was deserving of such veneration wasn’t too hard to guess.
For almost all through her tenure, the first citizen had no
clue to the mounting problems of the city and was frequently
fed by the ventriloquist voice of her husband or other party
seniors.
Then there are scores of other netas with a record of
corruption and malpractice or an active role in divisive
politics who continue to be greeted with honorifics that
smack of the colonial era when burra sahibs stomped across
the cantonments. At least for the sheer inaptness of the word
in such cases, we must shun it.
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