The "Funniness" of English

So after a month of my alleged return, I am finally writing my first post this year, as a married man :). Although, I must mention that this post has absolutely nothing to do with marriages and weddings n all. 

In his movie Namak Halaal  Amitabh Bachchan talks at length about the funniness of English. Here's the clip from the movie 

However, in India, the funniness of India goes much beyond a little light-hearted humor. It seems almost crazy, that something like language the define the status of a person. For ages now, English has been a language reserved for the higher class. It's really funny that to most of us, a French or an Italian who can barely put together a sentence of English is "better" than the person sitting next to us in a bus or on a train. 

Why is it that a non-English speaking European is okay, but an Indian who talks "funny" is just unacceptable.... Why do we find the Indian version of non-English repulsive? The reasons, although unclear, seem to have divided the people of our country even further. 

The Language of Thought

Picture this; it's a Friday (Saturday for some :D ) evening. You're sitting at your desk, restlessly peeking glances at the clock on the wall, waiting for it to end your long and tiring work week... And while you're waiting, you're planning your evening...

"On my way home, I've to pick up 'X', 'Y' and 'Z' from the shop on ABC and then I'll go watch a movie with 'DEFGHI' and we'll have dinner at 'Hotel MNOP' and blah blah blah..."

So in what language did u plan out your evening... Was it English, Hindi or some other language? Language is something that helps us communicate with others in an intelligible manner. Do we need a language to communicate with very own selves? We were certainly not born that way! But that's how we have become...

So if we've become so hard-coded to think in a particular language, then how does a person who was born deaf, think ? So try this exercise... Plan out something, and use only pictures... Picture anything you want...

Done? There yet? Wrap your minds around this then... So If a person is born deaf and blind... does that person have no thoughts? This first occurred to me when I saw Black. That was one scary performance...

So perhaps there is a language that we were all born with and forgot all about somewhere along the way?