Cycle of Cliches
So that Deuta would keep aside the day’s lesson plan and tell them stories.
And why wouldn’t it be? Tell me, who’d like to go through the rigors of learning how to speak, read, think and write in the language they were most afraid of, that too, at the fag-end of the day? English was the scariest subject in our school. My classmates didn’t come from affluent families, who could afford English-medium education and thereby get into the natural groove of speaking, reading, thinking and writing in English. They came from the families of roadside food vendors, sweepers, rickshaw-pullers, menial labourers and even beggars. Ours wasn’t an English-medium school. In fact, our school didn’t have any sp