WORDS ARE IMPORTANT

 WORDS ARE MIGHTIER THAN SWORD

I have written this saying “The Words are mightier than the Swords”- even more dangerous than writing pen” in one of my previous blogs. In the context of the recent controversial statements of the Director General of Police in charge of the jail, we may have to analyze the relevance of the above saying in a broader perspective. The statements made by the DGP in public were later withdrawn when situations were found not favourable. An officer of his calibre in the IPS cadre could not have casually remarked about the standard of the discipline of the prisoners and the maintenance of the Rules & Regulations of the Jail, by the Jail superintendent and his staff. He is also reported to have stated that external forces were at work in creating a commotion inside the Jail compound through political influence…

The relative or anybody who wants to visit a prisoner in jail can do so with the permission of the Authorities. But it must be in the Jail and not outside the jail premises.. Now everybody knows as to what happened in the instant case narrated by the DGP. Now if he says, such visits are authorized, why should he reverse his statement later?

In my ordinary prudence of logical thinking, I feel that a serious mistake is made by the officer in his utterances in public.  If we “Think twice before” we act or speak, such serious errors might not have occurred According to the latest scientific inventions, WORDS SPOKEN cannot be destroyed by any means, but can be retrieved later from the air, through electronic gadgets! Efforts are afoot by scientist to capture the sound waves, moving in Sinusoidal  waves /curves in the atmosphere, for recording the words spoken by great scientists and philosophers of the ancient past. Even WRITINGS are not permanent records as it can be spoiled or destroyed later. Therefore one has to be very careful and alert in using the TONGUE -THE DANGEROUS WEAPON”    

Abraham Mangalath