Irksome!

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People run after government jobs in India.Today i was talking to one of my hostel mates.She is elder to me by five years or so.She works in a post office in north Kolkata and by that i mean she is into government service.She randomly started speaking about the English syllabus in the third year and then made a comment which was tragic and hilarious at the same time-'the NOVEL MACBETH...'.I tried to stop her immediately but she was shamelessly ignorant and finally when she allowed me to speak,i told her that Macbeth is a Shakespearean tragedy and instead of firmly and quietly believing the fact,she went on to the extent of convincing me that i was wrong and what is ironical is the fact that just before making such a comment she was lecturing all of us about the calibre needed to crack a competitive exam ofcourse by which she meant she was brilliant.Now this idiot i am talking about has done her honours in English and today itself our professor was telling us the lamentable state of Indian education.If this is what people say after a three year study of a particular subject,i indeed don't care about who you are and where you work even if you are a high government official.I would rather pay all my respect to a 'fuchkawala' who atleast knows his subject i.e the art of making fuchkas.This idiot might never talk to me again for i have hurt her ego by trying to correct her in a room full of people and i myself would like to keep a distance from such people who might ruin my mood.And yes i wish i could correct her pronounciation of the word Chaucer which as per her dialect is 'chosor'.And what is more irritating than this idiot herself is that she does not care to improve or accept her mistake.I am not a master of this language but i readily accept my mistakes and try not to repeat them.

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