“Never judge a book by its cover”, easier said than done my friends. This is true that going on the attractiveness and beauty of the cover, one may often be deceived but I want you to consider an even more practical approach to the statement, can one really be going after each and every book and reading it in order to judge it? No, is the unanimous answer. One may argue that we can go for the reviews that other people make about a book and make our judgement on the basis of that. But, then again there would always be a difference in perception, e.g. Some of my friends like Chetan Bhagat a lot as an author but I have a strong dislike for all his novels except for the “three mistakes of my life”. Hence we get to know that we cannot consider the reviews by other people a proper criterion for judging a book. Now, we often read the back cover of books before we buy them. One the back cover of a book, writers often give a brief review of what is the content of the book. But I would like to ask you dear people, how many times have you read in the back of a book that “Poor grammar inside” or “Rough language has been used” or even “Improper writing style in this book, disruptive storyline”. Nobody would like to, rather should, write bad about their own book at the back of the book. It takes such a huge amount of effort to write a book, no one should release it with a negative attitude. So, after taking a look at various aspects of the saying, we finally come back to where it all starts and that is, we have no other choices but to go with the cover page. The more attractive the cover page is, the more are we attracted towards the book.
I like experimenting with words and recently, I replaced the word “BOOK” by “PEOPLE” and guess what, it suits the theme perfectly. The new idiom comes out to be “Never judge a person by his appearance”, this is an original
. Friends each and every statement above will now be related and explained with respect to people along with certain other examples and eventually you shall realize that the idea is worth having a look. Before starting, a very famous dialogue from the “Matrix”, ‘Appearances can be deceptive, Mr. Anderson”
that was just for fun actually but in strong correspondence to the context so I just liked mentioning it. Anyways, I was about to explain how are the two ideas similar and as always, I have an example in handy which can give a brief overview of the point which I am trying to make. It is in form of a conversation
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Harshit: In India, people are judged of the basis of their “Varna*”. You understand the term “varna” right?
Me:No.
Harshit: (with a sigh) “varna” means ‘color of the skin’
(*varna is a hindi words)
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Although in that conversation I debated against the topic but Harshit won the argument, not only because he is a very fine orator but also because he had a valid point. And the phenomenon he was talking about, can be observed anywhere throughout the world, but he was particular about India, because this is the country where it prevails the most. A hot chick breaks the signal and the traffic policemen tries his level best to look the other way, and a guy late for his office by 20minutes will get on the nerves on the same officer. People are judged by their appearances and that is the only way it works out in India. If you’ve ever been to Delhi, then you must be well aware of the rules at the discos, “Single Men: Rs. 900, Couples: Rs. 700, Chicks: Free”. Is there something special about these girls? No, my friends, 90% of these girls are either spoilt brats, or are looking for a guy who is one. In this case, if you judge these girls by their cover, they’re goddesses but from the inside they’re just the ones who’ll either suck your money out, or they’ll use you and then dump you. Today, this is not just the matter with girls, many boys have opted being such or similar as their only profession. They go to girls, befriend them, have their benefits and then leave the girls broken hearted. And then these broken hearted girls, become brats and the chain goes on. Well, it seems like we’ve deviated from our topic to “How girls/boys become money sucking parasites?”
Anyways, let us come back to the topic and pick up the first argument that came against this new idiom apart from the idea of judging every person you come across, one by one. Oh! Some of you might be considering this too. So, let me ask a question to all my friends who considered this as an option. How long does it take you to trust a person completely counting from the day you acquainted him/her? Now multiply this number to the number of people you’ve ever met. That is what you’re talking about, my friend!”. Now, the first logical counter to the statement would be, to go on other people’s comments about that particular buddy. I hate a guy that doesn’t mean everybody would hate that guy. Perceptions about books can also be better understood from here. A doesn’t like B, doesn’t answer the question to, whether C likes B or not. That is how it works, and I need not explain about how difficult would it be to conduct a vote for the righteousness and goodwill of every man you meet and deciding the appropriate voters for the same. Just talking nonsense for fun, sorry if you didn’t like
The next thing that comes to our minds would be to ask the person about himself. Ha ha, this would really be interesting. Some people would boast about them a lot, and the others would just be too modest to tell anything truthfully about them. I don’t want to be personal at all and that is why I’m in no mood to quote examples but that would have been true fun, believe me. Anyways, you got the point, that’s enough. In the end, what remains with us is again the appearance of a person and that is all we’re left, to judge a man with. That is it… I leave the decision upon you, as always. So it is your choice that which of the above illogical methods do you apply but please, “Never judge a book by its cover”. 
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