I was in Kanpur, my hometown, for end sem break when I saw an ad in which an urbanized person visits a village looking for someone; stops his jeep near a small boy in rags, and starts asking the address in his usual slang when he realizes that he is in a rural area thus he wouldn’t understand english. He then stops in mid of his speech & repeats aforesaid in hindi but to his surprise the small boy answers him in English. The ad ends with Abhishek Bachchan saying “What an Idea”, spreading education with his stupid impractical ideas.
The above ad reminded me of an incident when we were leaving hostel to go home, after sem ended. A zen stopped, with an alumni and probably his wife inside, looking like foreigners though, asked ‘ can u plzz tell me where’s limbdi hostel ‘, the boy answering the call this time was neither in rags nor was he small, he was my dear x-roomy(Sourabh Verma, final year B-Tech student, mechanical IT-BHU), standing tall with an air of pride, as if honored by the question, answers ‘sir it is after the chaura…………… hmmmmm…..uhhhhh…..sir wo agle ke agle chauraahe ke baad second hostel ‘ with a little disappointment as he has failed to answer in English. By the way it is not that he cant speak English , but he was unable to do so at that moment. The alumni eyes met mine (standing beside Verma) when we both chuckled a little and the car went away.
