Ice in a glass of water melts and adds to the volume of water, water takes in the temperature of the ice and becomes colder than its normal temperature. When the English came to India they got with them their language and culture; our culture might have been stringent and withstood the test of time, but our language has not. The adaptable lot that we are, we accommodated their language to such an extent that some words of the regional languages were very conveniently ignored in everyday vocabulary. “dinapatrike” became the newspaper, “lekhani” became the pen and as time “samaya” went by our language became blighted. Most Indian languages have been modified to use English in everyday vocabulary. The upward trend of such an influx has been so high that today; most of us in the urban scenario can’t even think in our mother tongue as easily as we think in English [or rather forced to do so in our schools. And no! I am not from the Kannada Rakshana Vedike.] Water ta...