Even if we never go to England, it's necessary to know English for certain reasons ; to impress an English teacher in school, to get internal marks, to get a white colored job, to impress freaky girls, and more important, to ‘show off’. English has a significant role in India, as it plays a ‘bridge’ role between different Indian languages. It is found everywhere textbooks to songs, from films to religion. If one speaks in English, there will be 2 types of misunderstanding judgments by common person. Either he is ‘showing off’ and arrogant, or he is smart and genius! When an immigrant comes to our place, first we name him as ‘Hindi wala’, ‘Bengali’, ’Tamilian’ and so on. Later we started talking about him. Meanwhile, politics, global warming, love gossip step down to the second option! Being from an immigrant family to Kerala, I suffered a lot as I am poor in all languages! Native language at home, the local language outside home, our own official language English in some places, heritage language like Sanskrit and the National language on the other hand!! As mixed languages is top fashion now a days, it’s not an issue to know any languages in good manner. English is more than enough to survive in India. With a lot of confidence, we make our ‘own style’ of English also! There we mallu stands first. Mother tongue pull is evident when Malayalees open their mouth to speak English. For sure, ‘mallu’ is never going to speak in good English until our English teacher stops teaching English in Malayalam.
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