Light years back, I had an opportunity to impart education in a school at Lupungutu, Jharkhand. I taught from KG to 9th STD. This endeavor lasted for a year, lucky the evaluation of my teaching took place at the end of the year, had the principal done it at an early stage, my teaching career might have been over long ago.
The major complaint against me was that I have forgotten that the school was Hindi medium and I was teaching in English unconsciously.
One student told me that I was teaching rather well – active, shouting and laughing (students laughed because I was doing so not because they understood the jokes, maybe out of sympathy or maybe they did not know what else to do) – but the only minor problem was they could not understand what was going on.
Another pointed out that I start and end the sentence in Hindi, in between only I use English, for example, “ Dheko, Hydrogen atom has only one electron hai”. But sincerely I believed that I was teaching everything fluently in Hindi, self-deception was at its best. I think that the only other competition I had in speaking in Hindi was late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who said in one of his election campaign, “ Jeethenge and nahi Loosenge”
Some time consciously I used Tamil words when I failed to find appropriate Hindi words, because I strongly believed that Tamil is closer to Hindi than English. But was never aware I used English words, maybe it may be the result of selective remembering.
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