मराठीचे पुस्तक सहावे ह्यातील हा एक धडा आहे. विसाव्या शतकाच्या सुरवातीला आपले पूर्वज काय नेमके शिकत होते ते ह्या पुस्तकातून थोडे फार कळते. पारतंत्र्यात असलेल्या आपल्या देशात इंग्रजांनी शाळा पद्धती सुरु केली होती. त्या काळी कदाचित मराठी, हिंदी, भूगोल, गणित, शाश्त्र, इतिहास असे वेगळे विषय नसावेत. एकाच पुस्तकात सगळे समाविष्ट केले दिसून येते. त्या एकच …
You take the blame for it, need be fail in the exam for it, but you do not rat out the mafia,, because if you do, you end up in the worst of positions, you become a marked man,, and you know what happens to a marked man, no one touches him, no one talks to him, no one wants to deal with him… so for the rest of his student life at Crescent he undergoes the most gruesome punishments of all : STUDY and appear for the exams.. because no one wants to copy or show answers to a certified rat.
(revised with inputs from Mr D H Ashish) For Indians, disparaging the front person is a matter of routine. Every opportunity to sneer at the educational qualifications of the front person is relished, and is to be amplified by gossip sharing the insult with a group of like minded foxes! This vulgar tendency is …