India's love-hate relationship with English. Jagan's new educational plan for Andhra is opposed.

India has economically benefited by the British legacy of the English language but has periodically made it the brunt of their fury. Now Jagan Mohan Reddy, Andhra state's leader has proposed to introduce it from the primary level leading to an outcry by the opposition. Bisbo traces the rise of English in India and how the various experiments against it have fared. See this age old Romeo-Juliet love-hate story.

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