Burning English?

Last month, members of the group [Kannada Sainya] burnt an effigy of the ‘English language’ and submitted a memorandum to the chief minister demanding that education in Karnataka should be in Kannada from the pre-primary to post-graduate levels [source].

Just one question – did the effigy sport a top hat or did they just scrawl “Ingleees” on one of those generic models from the effigy market?

“Burning English?” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=1647] was published Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 at 9:56 am by Patrix, filed under Current Affairs, Fun & Weird, and tagged as Current Affairs, English, language, protest, WTF. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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http://palscape.wordpress.com BongoP’o'ndit
Heh – was just talking to Confused about this. Would be nice to meet this ‘English Language’ chappie in real person, no ?
http://palscape.wordpress.com BongoP’o'ndit
Btw, don’t know if you were thinking of Amitabh Bacchan’s dialogue in Namakhalal when you chose the title…..but that dialogue can now be rephrased as:
“I can talk in english, i can walk in english, i can laugh in englishâ€¦.and i can also burn english…..because english is a phunny language – .”
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Bongo, I had expected Confused to take this on already.
I completely forgot about the Namakhalal dialogue. It fits this scenario perfectly. Probably they will include it in the sequel.
http://jyothsnay.wordpress.com/ jyothsnay
umm,
the kannada effigy cant afford to have “â€œIngleeesâ€ written all over his body (surplus amnt of cloth)…he certainly would have sported “aangla baasha”,the vernacular version/kannada cousin avataar of English….
well, these kind of dialogues on the streets are like
sporadic drizzles in the afternoon…
Jyo
http://ashujo.blogspot.com Ashutosh
They will insist tomorrow that English literature and poetry be taught in Kannada too…
http://www.retributions.wordpress.com confused
heh. Too many demands being made on poor confused. :P
Frankly, I have never understood this whole burning business!
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Jyo, sporadic drizzles are just a minor inconvenience but such stupid protests are a social disturbance especially so when fire is involved.
Ashutosh, Shakespeare-ji will be rolling in his kabr (a web 2.0 grave?).
Confused, don’t you know that this whole burning business provides a livelihood to effigy-makers, fuel providers, and not to mention unemployed youth who participate as extras in the protest.

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