by MUKUL DUBE
Dear Editor (Milli Gazette)
“Give a lathi to a dim-witted man and his new ability to break heads and limbs with it will soon have him power drink.”
This is what you published on 16-31 January 2011, supposedly as part of a letter from me. It makes no sense at all. What I had written was “… will soon have him drunk on power.”
What is “power drink”, please? Rooh Afza with added vitamins?
Please stop mauling things in the guise of editing. A good editor knows when no change is needed. You people seem to have a compulsion to use your red or green or blue pencils.
I have faced a great deal of this in the past. It upsets me that your readers will think me a writer of lousy English.
Mukul Dube can be reached at uthappam@gmail.com