The “Funniness” of English
So after a month of my alleged return, I am finally writing my first post this year, as a married man 
. Although, I must mention that this post has absolutely nothing to do with marriages and weddings n all.
In his movie Namak Halaal Amitabh Bachchan talks at length about the funniness of English. Here’s the clip from the movie
However, in India, the funniness of India goes much beyond a little light-hearted humor. It seems almost crazy, that something like language the define the status of a person. For ages now, English has been a language reserved for the higher class. It’s really funny that to most of us, a French or an Italian who can barely put together a sentence of English is “better” than the person sitting next to us in a bus or on a train.
Why is it that a non-English speaking European is okay, but an Indian who talks “funny” is just unacceptable…. Why do we find the Indian version of non-English repulsive? The reasons, although unclear, seem to have divided the people of our country even further.
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