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THREE VITAL LUBRICANTS FOR
SMOOTH COMMUNICATION
By Vaidyanathapuram Shankar
One skill which is essential as a reasonable cost. In good old times, it
common, powerful tool across all the is believed that people even used to
bandwidths of various professions is rely on pigeons for conveying
the skill to communicate effectively. messages. Contrast that with today
This one skill alone can make all the where people stay pigeon-holed in
difference between a winning ‘horse’ their rooms to send messages
and an ‘also ran’. across the globe in seconds!
The ‘gift of the gab’ has always been But alas, the art of communication
extolled from beginning of human still continues to favor only a lucky
civilization. But as the pundits of few among us. Such gifted ones are
communication will agree, destined to stride like a colossus
communication skill is not about just amidst us, whatever their chosen
talking incessantly or voluminously. calling. But there is no use feeling low
On the contrary, the chatterboxes about it as History tells us that this
may be considered very poor in has been the case always.
communication.
Guess what Chanakya, Birbal and
The Science of Communications has Tenaliram had in common? Or, more
taken giant strides and facilitated recently, Churchill, Hitler and
communications at unbelievable Mahatma Gandhi?
speed between unimaginable
distances. It has also enabled All were high priests of
availability of modern technology to communication.
all at
Most of us might remember the
famous play ‘Julius Caesar’ and the
speeches given therein by Mark
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