As words in the English vocab go here is a rather innocuous one. DRONE. We all have someone in memory from our yesteryears that had the tendency to drone on. As in narrate or lecture in a boring dull manner. Aunts, uncles, professors or grand someone or the other.
Yet this is nothing compared to the resurgence of this dull sounder. Today the US military uses Drones which are an unmanned spy device across its campaigns or theaters (As they are romantically referred to). So much so that home based Do It Yourselfers or is it Yourselvers have also cooked up some to spy on their neighbors et al.
There seems to be a movement afoot to regulate the use of drones by those that wish to sun bathe naked in their yards and not have a buzzing camera go over head and end up on the local newspaper front page. Perhaps some such device rankled the Duchess of something or the other the other day.
Alternative use of the word refers to a male honey bee - some body whose sole purpose is to procreate similar to the same Duchess of something or the other.
Lastly Indian mythology had one fella called DRONA (sounds similar to DRONE) - who actually was supreme commander / military tactician of the armies of Kauravas and Pandavas - unique job where he had to coach and strategize for both parties that ultimately went to war with each other. This was one MANNED effort unlike the UNMANNED dronas that inhabit today's military landscape.
What is the point of this blog you ask? To Drone ON of course!
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
The point has been droned home.
ReplyDeleteYou can always console readers with the classic song 'rona, kabhi nahin rona', and the readers can in turn say 'Drona, kabhi nahin drona'....
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