VIJAYAWADA - When Vijaya learned to write the English words"boy","girl" and"teacher" in the third grade, her parents were ecstatic. Her mother, a domestic worker, had never gone to school, and her father, a vegetable vendor, could read only Telugu, their mother tongue and the language spoken in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where they live.
Vijaya's neat, careful English writing gives them visions of her as an engineer. But her teacher said,"She can write in English, but she still thinks in Telugu. There's a clash."Enjoy unlimited access to ST's best work Subscribe Now
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