Remember those school days when they
asked us to pen imaginative essays on 'If I were the Prime Minister blah blah'?
If only I was enlightened enough then to begin my first and final paragraph as
follows:
If I were
the Prime Minister of this chaotic country, I’d have not wasted a minute on
writing this silly piece of garbage. Besides, there's hardly any probable merit
attached to this futile exercise when all that matters is the score a student
grabs at the end of the term—forget his/her reading skills, pronunciation
or the ability to sustain a conversation in English. No offence to the
authority. Just that I’d be having far more important things to deal with if I
was the PM. Like making sure more concrete steps are undertaken to educate our
kids in a manner that will make them feel learned and proud of their mother
tongue, not forcefully Anglicized with an overdose of lingual superiority
complex.
Nice try
though, teacher.
Sincerely
yours,
Honorable
Prime Minister of India.
PS: Don't forget to vote.
