Recently in the course of my travel to home, I met two persons, of different age, profession, education and lifestyle - united by Telangana and divided by passion and education.
One is a cab driver, whose views about Telangana were appalling. Before I got into that cab, he dropped a Mumbai student from ISB till station. He wanted KCR govt to send away outsiders as 'they did' with Andhra people. He could not proceed studies post matriculation owing to his disinterest and thinks ISB students take away jobs from Telangana. He looked convinced with my argument that it is the other way around. These outsiders generally take his cab and fund his livelihood. He represented the majority of Telangana I knew : attitude - careless, arguments - baseless, aimless and hopeless.
Then in the bus, I was seated beside an uncle in his mid 50s. We broke into a conversation that went so far into the night, others had to shut us up (it was 1:00AM). He works in Singareni mines ( I thought one more typical T fellow) and is passionate about english. We were talking about crosswords, anagrams, pangrams, kangaroo words, and what not. I was amazed at his achievements. He holds national records for biggest crossword puzzle and palindrome. He spoke very passionately about his assiduous endeavors and experiments with english. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing with him my literary interests.
I forgot to mention, his name is 'Police', yes.
I wish Police uncle all the best for his book release; a book aimed at making english learning a fun and inculcating linguistic interests in school children.
Here it says it all. Have a look at the cover of the book
