Hindustan Times
I grew up speaking English because that was the common language between my parents – my father’s Hindi wasn’t even half-way as good as my mother’s English. And most certainly not her Hindi. Her Tamil was no match for his Malayalam. So English it was at home.
But that was sheer accident of birth which got us all talking so many languages – I lived for ten years with a Bengali aunt in Bombay and got my own place in a hurry when I realised I was beginning to dream in Bangla! Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Filed under India · Tagged BJP politician, english, mother-tongue, ommon language, Sharad Pawar
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