Rajpath decolonised; Raj Bhavans?
THE WEEK India|February 05, 2023
We stop singing 'Abide with Me' at Beating Retreat, we abandon the British-built Parliament house, we re-name old roads, we govern more in Hindi than in English.
R. PRASANNAN
Rajpath decolonised; Raj Bhavans?

Yet, English and the British seem to be staying "too much with us late and soon", and even growing on us. I mean, the English language and British ways of governance.

More of our kids go to English schools these atmanirbhar days than did earlier, more people speak English and now, more of our governors govern like British governors did that's what Bhagwant Mann, Hemant Soren, M.K. Stalin, Pinarayi Vijayan, Arvind Kejriwal and K. Chandrasekhar Rao are saying, and what Mamata Banerjee used to say till that "nice gentleman" C.V.

Ananda Bose came to stay in the Kolkata Raj Bhavan praising the "artistic chief minister of a poetic state". Bongs, who perhaps love the Mallu for his surname, say that she sent him idlis, she promised to get him a Malayali cook, and presto! all the bad blood that was spilled in the house of Wellesley during the Jagdeep Dhankhar days was scrubbed clean and tiled over.

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