The 'PM' essay.

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.

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