I am remembering my school days when we had fun listening our authorities speaking in English.
We had few funny hostel Superintendents (Subedars from ARMY) to keep people like us in good shape & size. I really don't want to compare & go in detail to their educational background, but the common thing between them was that, they were putting regular effort in learning good English.
I remember the day when I & bunch of other idiots were sitting in parade ground listening to a long & passionate speech from one of our Subedar, whom we fondly called Munda.
The funny part about this munda was that, he constantly called himself superior to rest of the people in the school. He had cultivated in his mind that he has 2 stars on his shoulder, which is just one less than what our principal had. So, only principal is superior to him. No one else has authority other than the principal to order him.
So Munda was discussing with us about the IPKF attack on LTTE gurreilas in Srilanka. He spoke about how they fought bravely & the number of Indian soldiers who got killed in that intense battle.
He suddenly stopped in between & asked everyone, "There is a word that the Jawans used constantly during war time, "Casualty". Can anyone tell me its meaning?
One among us replied, "sir, Casualty means Death".
Munda Said, "Nahni, tum logon ko kuch nahni pata. yeh sirf jawan ko pata hota hai. Casualty ka matlab maut hota hai".
Then there was another incident in hostel which I remember till date.In our hostel, every night we used to have a roll call sharp at night 10 PM, just to get a head count or to make an announcement, or to punish anyone involved in some misdoing.Most of the time our hostel Superintendent would present during roll call. We fondly called him Mathiya, means earthen pot in oriya.
One fine night, few of my friends were missing during the roll call.So mathiya shouted..."where is they, u have any idea, where is they".There was a student named Dey, who came out & said, "sir,i am here".Mathiya replied, "No, I am not looking for you. All I am asking is where is they".
I guess you all know where is that "THEY" now, find him and produce to Mathiya who is still struggling with plural and singular. Get him a grammar book asap.
We had few funny hostel Superintendents (Subedars from ARMY) to keep people like us in good shape & size. I really don't want to compare & go in detail to their educational background, but the common thing between them was that, they were putting regular effort in learning good English.
I remember the day when I & bunch of other idiots were sitting in parade ground listening to a long & passionate speech from one of our Subedar, whom we fondly called Munda.
The funny part about this munda was that, he constantly called himself superior to rest of the people in the school. He had cultivated in his mind that he has 2 stars on his shoulder, which is just one less than what our principal had. So, only principal is superior to him. No one else has authority other than the principal to order him.
So Munda was discussing with us about the IPKF attack on LTTE gurreilas in Srilanka. He spoke about how they fought bravely & the number of Indian soldiers who got killed in that intense battle.
He suddenly stopped in between & asked everyone, "There is a word that the Jawans used constantly during war time, "Casualty". Can anyone tell me its meaning?
One among us replied, "sir, Casualty means Death".
Munda Said, "Nahni, tum logon ko kuch nahni pata. yeh sirf jawan ko pata hota hai. Casualty ka matlab maut hota hai".
Then there was another incident in hostel which I remember till date.In our hostel, every night we used to have a roll call sharp at night 10 PM, just to get a head count or to make an announcement, or to punish anyone involved in some misdoing.Most of the time our hostel Superintendent would present during roll call. We fondly called him Mathiya, means earthen pot in oriya.
One fine night, few of my friends were missing during the roll call.So mathiya shouted..."where is they, u have any idea, where is they".There was a student named Dey, who came out & said, "sir,i am here".Mathiya replied, "No, I am not looking for you. All I am asking is where is they".
I guess you all know where is that "THEY" now, find him and produce to Mathiya who is still struggling with plural and singular. Get him a grammar book asap.
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