Sita hindi bhasha bol sakta hai!

Had a great Saturday as usual. Got some serious practice done at class today, actually feel a lot more confident now and its been just 2 weeks that we have started practicing more. I am really happy with the way the sessions are going.

The heat is really turning into a killer! And to go out shopping in this heat is as torturous as third degree treatment in POW camps :P (feels exaggerated right? but that's how much it irritates me).

I was watching "Atithi Kab Jaoge" today and I really connected to a small thing they showed. In the movie, Konkana Sen Sharma was playing the role of a Bengali girl and in it she kept mixing up gender while speaking. Eg. "Woh jaati kyun nahi hai?" referring to Paresh Rawal. It just made me happy seeing that it is actually a phenomenon common enough to be shown in a movie.

I have lived almost all my life outside Calcutta and have spoken Hindi for a very long time. But apparently there is one thing that has had very little improvement in my mastering of the Hindi language. I, like Konkana just cannot get the concept of when to use "ka" and "ki". I refer to a girl saying, "woh kal aayega."  or "Tu sari kyun nahi pehenta". I have started putting in conscious effort to correct this but I think I need someone who can correct me continuously and explain the logic behind the sentence formation. I could also get myself a Hindi Grammer book and attempt on my own. But I fear that the result could be disastrous.

It is actually not completely my fault. Bengali doesn't have this gender differentiation! And genetically I am a Bong :) Thanks to this, my friends and I have had some very amusing time, some very embarrassing and quite a few life threatening situations (cases where I have referred to girls as mentioned above).

I firmly believe that there are numerous Bongs out there, who are tormented and are living in misery because of this "ved-vaaw" between the genders. Come on! Why should there be any difference in how we refer either a man or a woman? Is a woman less than any man? So why shouldn't they be referred in the same way as a man?

:D Absolute pathetic attempt at selling my concept but God  knows my life would be simpler if this minor ammendment could be done in the Hindi language.