Thursday, 31 July 2008

Contextual Dilemma


Power of Education, originally uploaded by Kedar Iyer.

Who do you think may have written the above? Please stop a moment to think before reading on...

When I first read this piece in "The Art of Looking Sideways", I naturally assumed that a little girl had written it. Did you too?

While uploading it now, I am questioning the reasons for the assumptions and I don't seem to have any concrete ones. All my reasons are based on the language used, the handwriting and the concept I was working on at the time of spotting it.

Ofcourse, there is no real evidence to believe that this was written by a girl child, but I did. So, is my assumption purely contextual or are there some inherent signs in the text to suggest it?

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