Toughies

Toughie – questions when posed to you for answering, though you know the answer or want to express your opinion, you can’t do so! Irrespective of whether your country provides you the freedom of speech or not, if yes and whether it has sub clauses or not, etc. Because you are forced to follow the civilities of public behavior and expressions, as your words are valued. Please note, the usage of word VALUED, it implies your market rate or brand rate.

However the questions may be silly, you should not crack out. But yes, with your civil reply you can crack the questioner, but it rarely does occur as it needs extra wit. Let me cite you some instances of such stupid questions which are valued lot in day to day activities.

Whenever I tune a channel in my television, that too during festival days, your eye sockets will easily spot interviews of famous actors of upcoming releases directed by famous directors. The very first dissecting question from the airhead interviewer to the charismatic interviewee would be “How did you feel to act under such a big director and famous banner?” And guys you could obviously guess the answer which runs in the lines like” it was a great experience, I learned a lot from him, etc……..” To add more to his fate, the actor( actress, comedians, support cast……..who ever who has face value) have to repeat the same answer for many interviews in a row, still more worse is that we by luck have to hear all those, every time they are broadcasted.

Next toughie poser I would like to discuss about is RJs. These species of mankind are really unique. They can talk non stop in Tamil, with out bothering whether they are informative, or non stop nuisance to the listeners. These guys favorite toughie is “Aprom epadi irrukinga?” even if they are standing before a cemetery!

Coming to the college life, which I experienced in my near past, I would like to give first privilege to the Defense time of final year project scenario. After each member of the project has explained in detail about the various aspects of the project, the most minds cracking considered question pops out from the scholarly professor would be “What is your contribution”, though you might have said it in your objective itself.

I have got the opportunity to present five technical papers in national level symposiums organized in various colleges. As they say though Indians vary by language, traditions, color, etc. they have same patriotic feeling in heart, Indianess. So is the case here too, irrespective of the college and paper I presented, I was posed with same question “Is it feasible to implement?” Hey come on man, I am presenting a theoretical solution, if it was a practical one, then I would go for project presentation.

At last I want to end with funniest of all; we would have written aim of an experiment in our record/exam using words which are as present in question, but with extra word “To” add as prefix to the sentence. Example: Qà“Implement …………………..” Aim à “To implement……………………….” Rewarding part of it is you would be awarded 5 marks for this answer. Wasn’t it really rewarding? And perhaps only few such toughies exist today!

Note: The above idea and some instances were borrowed (also got inspired) from the cranks corner of T.Nagar Talk.


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ksabai