Our age-old slavery to the language not at all ours but tried
hard to assert so...
Verbally there are many many unregistered tell tales we
exchange but for those written, they become documents.
21st century and we are striving hard to market ourselves as
English speakers.
Sharing with you a sizzling menu I came across
in a restaurant between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.
This is not a Gujarat story, but a testimony of desperation
and assimilation.
Ask a commoner on his desire to learn English, gleefully he'd
say," Madam, vaav badhta hein, loug hamare baton par dhyaan
dete hein"( Madam, our stock
rises, people pay attention to our words.)
