tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567368472934030352.post564274887636756812..comments2024-03-06T00:38:02.377-08:00Comments on ``Mysurean Musings: Very bad English!Dinakar KRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10148152470155668711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567368472934030352.post-42004606855390157052009-09-30T11:31:10.467-07:002009-09-30T11:31:10.467-07:00Hi Ravi,
My father and uncle also studied in Sara...Hi Ravi,<br /><br />My father and uncle also studied in Sarada Vilas High School. I think SR is S.Ramaswamy - I may be wrong. But MNL I know because he took English Grammar in 8th but he retired when we went to 9th. MN Lakshminarasimiah. It was he was known to my grandfather and he was the head master when I was admitted. <br /><br />There were some silly and funny expansions coined to some teachers' initials. BN - Beedi naayi, DVN - Donk veene naarada, KRK - Krishnamurthypuram Rotti Kalla, MRK - Madhya Raatri Kalla, NL - Naayi Laddi, VK (PT master) - Vadkal kundi, AVR - Ardha Wade Ranganna. NL was my father's classmate in his school. There was CVR, Anantha Somayaji (Sanskrit), MKG - he took our "Work Experience" period and taught us simple stitching - hemming, sewing buttons and buttonholes (which skill I still practice today). There was one ASL who took our Geography period (we could not keep up the speed of his note dictation). Many years later after he retired, I used to see him in a pathetic condition in dress and appearance, selling agarbathies on the streets. There was Ganapathi Bhat (he did not take our class). One SR joined in 1971-72 (Kannada or Hindi?). NS Seetharam (who still is active near Old Agrahara) succeeded as HM to MNL.<br /><br />That above generation was the last of good teachers of the "old , school", with kacchhe panche, close collar coat and topi. They all came to school either by walk or on bicycles. <br /><br />You are right, I remember well, the DWH strike (Down With Hindi) that was such a mess.Dinakar KRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148152470155668711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567368472934030352.post-25082906755669569112009-09-16T11:53:14.498-07:002009-09-16T11:53:14.498-07:00Dinakar
Your English is not up to scratch even now...Dinakar<br />Your English is not up to scratch even now. I am not surprised. By 1970s thanks to the central govt's "Hindi promotion at all costs agenda"( even Nehru who was ducated in England indulged in this Hindi promotion nonsense) aided by locals such as Kuvempu, English teaching had lost its lustre. Teachers like SR, MNL and others whose names I am unable to recollect ( I was a student in this institution in 1950s) who were such excellent teachers of English were long gone by then.Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01501635262834016593noreply@blogger.com