What's with the i?

For those of us who have studied in English medium schools or are just very comfortable with the language, I is always written as I. Just like proper nouns always begin with an upper case. I'm not sure why it is so, but it's like a rule and you normally don't mess around with something that is taken for granted. Pretty much like breathing through your nose. I mean why the hell can't we breathe through our mouths, which technically we can, but we keep out mouths closed and let the air into our lungs and out through our nasal orifice don't we?

Much along the same lines is the fact that I is written as I and not i. But hell, didn't I say, it's a rule that no one questioned? So you know what they say about rules - break them or bend them. That's what's happening here I presume. Perhaps it's to do with irreverence, perhaps it's just someone who's questioning and saying, 'let's see who can question us or what can happen'. Don't know if anything can happen or if people will stop communicating or writing or any such dramatic after-effect as a form of protest.

But Jug Suraiya's comment in the STOI (Sunday Times of India) in the editorial pages is something to do with this new age phenomenon.

If you can make sense of what he's written today, do enlighten me. But ooops...no one reads this blog or any blog of mine. Which is well.

So anyway, I'd still like to question - what's with the i?