pandu goes english

'kay re kutthe challas?', ' aamcha chai-pani cha kai?' and few others will soon be replaced be 'where are you going?', ' what about our commisions?' respectively. confused?? Well dont be so because thats what you will hear from our so called pandu hawaldars soon. (ofcourse if everything goes as planned)

the maharashtra government has decided that the mumbai police should be taught English. They wiil be given training at the 7 training centers in mumbai. the reason behind this idea is that it will help the law and order situation in mumbai as also help the foreign tourists that come to mumbai.

this is their plan of action :

• why : so that the police force can use computers in a better way and also interact with foreigners.
• how : with the help of training centers located in various parts of mumbai.
• what : a basic course that will make them speak, read and write english. their speech need not be fluent.

this looks like a good idea. this will not only help people who are not well-versed with hindi and marathi (e.g. people from the south do not even know hindi properly so there is no question of marathi ). it is obviously going to help them cope up with the technological advancements both in general life and in the crime field. and obviously in this age of globalisation it is very important to know english.
so it does seem that the idea is a positive one from the government.

but is it going to work?? considering our political scenario, i m sure that in the coming days there is going to be opposition from a few parties ( everybody knows who always opposes anything that is against marathi !!). from the purist's point of view it is actually a degradation of the language because the police is obviously going to create a bhelpuri of the language. (who cares about the purists these days !!) police may easily misinterpret or communicate wrongly with the foreigners. therefore instead of helping, the situation can get worse. communication can occur correctly using the local language.

so the point is that while they should learn english, they should always first use the local language to solve any problem.

joke of the day: a company official tells his executive : " u have done so much with so little for so long that i would like u to move on to doing everything with nothing"