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English vinglish tamil trailer4/3/2024 Behind age, weight, and lately, a growing buzz of OCD. Photos also show that girl receding over the years. Photos over the years show mother as a slight girl in a “bell-bottom suit”, riding a horse, smiling into the camera, her long hair often open. Mother would go to her best friend to help frame a reply back, and in those shared confidences was forged a friendship that endures 50 years later. Mother’s regret was that father wrote in English. They sent letters to each other over their brief engagement. She was told to hurriedly get ready and, she recalls, she put on a “firozi (sky blue) kurta and churidar”. He was in Jalandhar to “see” another girl, and was directed to meet my mother too, “just in case”. She remembers the day father came to meet her. Marriage happened, she moved, and never got around to clearing the exam. The sport that she is, mother never hides the fact that her academic career ended with a ‘Compartment’ in English, in her final year graduation. Yet, there is one lingering rancour - and I was reminded of it again in the wake of the government unveiling its New Education Policy with emphasis on teaching in the mother tongue and when India’s IITs announced recently that 11 regional languages were set to enter its hallowed carridors.
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