Word Attack!!

Mr. Andaleeb Wajid???

Ever since my articles on computers, and keyboard shortcuts started getting published in Open Sesame, I have been getting emails from people who have read the articles, and liked them very much. Every single email reads, Dear Mr.Andaleeb Wajid.

I always forward the emails to Daksha who gets very excited because it shows that there are people out there who are reading what we’ve written. And we always rue that apparently not many kids are reading the articles, because I get mails from people who are well into their forties and once there was an email from a man who was 82! There could be a couple of reasons as to why kids are not responding. One - they may not have internet access….two - even if they have, their parents probably don’t let them create email IDs(yes…that is a possibility!), or three - they read the articles, but they’re just too lazy to respond. The worst possibility is that they aren’t reading the articles…Saboor never reads Open Sesame, even when I thrust it right under his nose! Whatever it is, I’m glad that someone is reading the articles, and people are responding. Now to just tell them that its not Mr. Andaleeb Wajid.

Sheesh! Just imagine what they’re probably thinking. Some bespectacled man, sitting at a computer, fervently typing out articles on keyboard shortcuts….and what is actually the scenario? Me, sitting with my laptop on my bed, with clothes strewn around me, baby powder lying here and towels lying there…and of course, Azhaan sleeping, because that is when I write!!