Every year, at around this time, I trudge down to Mumbai University – Kalina to correct\/moderate papers.<\/p>\n
I, for my sins, am the chairperson for one of the papers. When asked the first time what does the chairperson do – I was told, quite seriously, ‘woh na, paper submit karta hai, aur reciept leta hai<\/em>‘ .<\/p>\n As usually, the papers were a mixed bag – some good, some pass mark quality, some that have you chuckling, and some that have you shaking your head in sheer wonderment and asking ‘who taught this’. When you have paper after paper that spouts out the same garbage – you know that it is not student error, but teacher error !!<\/p>\n In any case, here are some of the best responses:<\/p>\n a) Educated people in India live in the cities and speak and read English. We (as in these) watch English channels. The rest of India that is illiterate speak their mother tongue or vernacular languages. They watch regional language channels because they don’t understand English because they are illiterate.<\/p>\n b) Hindi is the mother tongue of India. Over 99% of India understands and speaks Hindi except South India which speaks Dravidian and North East that speaks Chinese.<\/p>\n c) Rajiv Gandhi is the grandfather of Rahul Gandhi and is the farmer prime minister of India<\/p>\n d) Indira Gandhi’s daughter Sonia Gandhi is the chief of the Congress Party<\/p>\n e) The British started the AIR in 1757 and DD a few years later to keep the Indian people subjugated<\/p>\n f) The Gandhi family fought for India’s Independence – Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi all went to jail when the British wanted to stop them from attaining independence<\/p>\n g) Hindi is the National Language of India.<\/p>\n h) People who don’t understand Hindi are anti National<\/p>\n i) Hindus speak Hindi. the non Hindus speak other languages<\/p>\n j) People in villages are poor and illiterate<\/p>\n h) villagers like to watch music, dance and soaps. City people like to watch news and IPL<\/p>\n k) the BBC was used by the British to keep Africa and India under control. That saved the expense of having a big army<\/p>\n l) People who are poor do not have television sets and hence do not know what is happening<\/p>\n m) poor and illiterate people in villages cannot afford DTH and do not know what is happening in IPL <\/p><\/blockquote>\n I can see these nameless, faceless students anchoring news – not very long for now…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year, at around this time, I trudge down to Mumbai University – Kalina to correct\/moderate papers. I, for my sins, am the chairperson for one of the papers. When asked the first time what does the chairperson do – I was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12,13,23],"tags":[446,554,613,755],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-finally","category-desi-pundit","category-diary","category-india","tag-desi-pundit","tag-exam-papers","tag-future-journalists","tag-india"],"yoast_head":"\n