Man is malleable and ductile. While metal may have to be hammered into sheets and drawn into wires; man does not need to be subjected to such extreme measures. Teleport the quarry-worker into the mine-shift and within days, he shall be shielding his eyes from the sun.
Take me, for example. I caught myself thinking in Hindi the other day. It has only been over a month and a half that I started spouting Hindi, albeit like a broken fountain at the beginning - eloquence would come in bursts, followed by brief struggles that were attempts to translate complicated stuff into what is, ironically, my mother-tongue. Now - I even count in Hindi.
I am not trying to sound hip here. It’s just that I love the English language. Although I did very well at Hindi in school, English was my passion. I read my first real book when I was eight and never stopped. What I like about the language, I guess, is its universality, its vastness, its reach. I have access to so much more of the world because of it. Also, I imagine Hindi as a prudish old gentleman, a preacher of moral rectitude, his fiction often mired in tragedy - like Premchand. English is PG Wodehouse and Albert Camus; Enid Blyton and Harold Robbins; Ruskin Bond and Alistair McLean; Sidney Sheldon and Shakespeare.
Topic Change. About the Aarushi-hatyakand - the media-fication appalls me. What must those eight-year olds watching these murky proceedings be thinking? For a kid, completely enamored with her equally-doting dad, it must have come as a shock that fathers can be suspected of such evil. (I am not saying I believe he did it, I am just saying that even the suggestion of that must have been a perspective-changing experience for a child whose imagination would never have, otherwise, suggested such a possibility). Kids tend to magnify their unique little troubles. I hope parents are being sensible enough to shield their children from this blitzkrieg. I hope it’s possible to do so.
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The kind of comments ur posts attract like the previous one :P I have always struggled with hindi vis-a-vis English. hindi is a very difficult language
It is difficult for parents to do so or I would say impossible. Parents are not telling the tales to children about these events. It's the society which is exposing the kids to them. And this is but natural outcome of what was termed as 'globalization'. In this our society started following the west blindly and so the consequnces, what west is expiriencing now, should come our way as well.
Parenting is indeed a tough job in today's world with the children having access to so much information from various sources..moreover the kids are getting smarter also :) as one comment says it is nearly impossible to shield from external sources also.. i think we should move away from "do this do that" "this is right this is wrong" parenting to more of a dialogue oriented parenting..its important to spend time talking to kids everyday on what their day was like..answer their qns, doubts in a tactful manner instead of dismissing them totally as childish!, and give a sense to the children that they should/can approach you on any matter..its important that we treat our kids like adults earlier than what our parents did to us..It is going to be tough challenge indeed when we become parents :)
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