When words fail music speaks
A very famous Danish Author, Hans Christian Andersen once said, “Where words fail music speaks” By nature’s own will, humans have been gifted with a voice and words and there is one and only one way to express, i.e. by words. Though we may feel that kinesics is also a way to communicate, it is an acquired quality. From a tender age I wondered, what can music speak when words cannot? In search of linguistic justification for such a statement, though never intended to find any, I travelled time. Well, not with Doraemon’s time traveller but with the ticking clock to find the answer. Let me tell you, I am a person from a not so modern urban town. I grew up with parents, without a sibling but with lots and lots of ethics and life skills. As the age-old tradition of my town, I was made to indulge myself into different types of extra-curricular activities. The list started from recitation, drawing, indoor sports and it went on. At first, I always took deep inter...