Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Why Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to speak in English at Sriharikota?

By all accounts this was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's most laboured effort in public speaking. There is no doubt that he is among India's most effective speakers in Gujarati and Hindi — in that order. But Mr Modi begins groping for words the moment he begins speaking in English.

It is not simply a matter of rustic pronunciation, but it is a question of thought process — his linguistic programme doesn't run in English but in either his mother tongue or the one in which he has conducted .. 

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