My interest in public speaking started to grow the day I happened to listen to an unscheduled lecture by the chief of a training institution a few decades ago. We trainees stood up bewildered when he entered our class suddenly one day and spoke in his metallic voice: “Your booked speaker has not come and so I propose to engage you for the next three hours. Please tell me what topic you would like me to speak?”
Glum with hearing departmental subjects, I proposed a simple topic, which looked silly for the occasion, amid explosive laughter of the class members.
“Can you speak on how to save and spend money, sir?” With a perfunctory smile, he started to speak fluently in King’s English, taking the full class with him all the way.
