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Fluent Azhagiri puts to rest doubts about English skills – India – The Times of India
As brother Stalin and mother Dayalu Ammal looked on, DMK’s M K Azhagiri took oath of office in English. It sounded neither halting nor practised. And with it, the first myth of post-poll bargaining — of Congress’s apprehension over Azhagiri’s lack of fluency in English — lay well and truly busted. (via Fluent Azhagiri puts to rest doubts about English skills – India – The Times of India).
English language media in India is still in its colonial haze – and to see such decadent, colonial ideas, 60 years after the British were thrown out, boggles my imagination. To approve of a politician, because he has English-language skills, is much like the endorsement of Obama because of the colour of his skin!
I don’t know which is worse!
the analogy between obama and this situation is meaningless…
from a progressivist perspective – the obama equivalent in India would have been Mayawati becoming a prime-minister…
..however – approving a politician for showing “acceptable” foreign language skill is a phenomenon you will never see in any nation with a backbone.
The elite Indian ranks “high” – up there with all the south-american countries…
While being fluent in English is no criteria for being a good politician, it surely doesnt apply to Azhagiri. He was born with silver spoon and most of his life he has behaved like a spoilt kid. He has now gone one step ahead and become a full fledged goon.
Media despises him for his actions. A person of such character cannot be painted as a hero. He is a villian and should be potrayed as one.
The point on this post is the media – and not Azhagiri.
Indian media is so besotted with English speaking, that they cannot see the person or his ideas, beyond the English.
Indians are a forgiving lot – and demonization is not a Indian forte. So. Azhagiri will get a long rope.