से एप्पल,एप्पलए माने सेव
आर से रेनबो,रेनबो माने इन्द्रधनुष
प से पोथिया, ब से बुद्धराम
Yes ,This is how this journey in July 1975 started when I went to my middle school at Nakarasar . I neither knew about "A" nor about "apple" . In those times English subject was used to join in course in 6th class . The book was called "Angrezi" ki kitab. I & my other classmates were around 11 to 14 years old when we entered in Six class and that was the age when no pity by a teacher was shown in sparing us from "Budhram". Budhram was a typical Rohida lath for beating the boys who could not mug up the spellings of a particular unit given from Pthiya ( a pocket book )as homework . Our aim at that time was only save us from Budhram( cane). I remember the scenes even today of my english teacher beating us in his white kurta- payajama like goats( once my father came school and heard the sound of beating from out side the classroom & he came to door and asked masterji "Ghona koot rahe ho kya" means sir are beating goats in classroom ".
Anyway I struggleld a lot with English and it's words and prepared myself to face the challenge. Though sometimes felt ashamed of my poor pronunciation,lack of use of proper prepositions, phrasal verbs etc. Also I fought for English at home several times for calling meal as food because my father was an illiterate & in our Rajasthani food is used a term for "dog's shit". Similarly there are much more dogmas which can't be written here.
But now I have been able to write a poetry book in English & my aim was to set a preface to inform you all that from A apple I have completed a journey of R for Rainbow. Hope you will enjoy the book. An interesting poem named" I welcome English" has also been included about my struggle with English. The book is available on Amazon 🙏.
आर से रेनबो,रेनबो माने इन्द्रधनुष
प से पोथिया, ब से बुद्धराम
Yes ,This is how this journey in July 1975 started when I went to my middle school at Nakarasar . I neither knew about "A" nor about "apple" . In those times English subject was used to join in course in 6th class . The book was called "Angrezi" ki kitab. I & my other classmates were around 11 to 14 years old when we entered in Six class and that was the age when no pity by a teacher was shown in sparing us from "Budhram". Budhram was a typical Rohida lath for beating the boys who could not mug up the spellings of a particular unit given from Pthiya ( a pocket book )as homework . Our aim at that time was only save us from Budhram( cane). I remember the scenes even today of my english teacher beating us in his white kurta- payajama like goats( once my father came school and heard the sound of beating from out side the classroom & he came to door and asked masterji "Ghona koot rahe ho kya" means sir are beating goats in classroom ".
Anyway I struggleld a lot with English and it's words and prepared myself to face the challenge. Though sometimes felt ashamed of my poor pronunciation,lack of use of proper prepositions, phrasal verbs etc. Also I fought for English at home several times for calling meal as food because my father was an illiterate & in our Rajasthani food is used a term for "dog's shit". Similarly there are much more dogmas which can't be written here.
But now I have been able to write a poetry book in English & my aim was to set a preface to inform you all that from A apple I have completed a journey of R for Rainbow. Hope you will enjoy the book. An interesting poem named" I welcome English" has also been included about my struggle with English. The book is available on Amazon 🙏.
Link of book is given below
https://amzn.in/d/0aTD1Xa
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