The word retro is usually taken to mean aspects of current life or style that are consciously imitative of a previous age.
The English language as used in India referring especially to bureaucracy or government could have been bodily lifted from days of the British Raj. And that is the pity of modern India, a country in which a dynamic private sector struggles against a govt frozen in time with regard to laws, language and administration. Whenever I want a few laughs after a busy day, I can find them from any news item in any Indian English newspaper. If you are wondering where I got my latest laugh from, wonder no more. Pawan Hans (the public sector civilian helicopter transport company) recently saw the resignation of 5 of their best pilots in the western sector. These pilots maintained that for years they have been flying the Gadchiroli Naxalite areas without military training or helicopter gunships. The constant high stress of flying over naxal controlled territory made them sitting ducks and hence their resignations. To which their area general manager commented to the press " I have heard that 5 pilots have submitted their papers. I have yet to go through their email." As if this wasn't riotous enough, the state director general of police added "I don't understand why they are afraid. We have provided adequate security cover at the Gadchiroli helipad." Arre papyas: Whats the point of an email if you have "yet to read it". And The problem is not the helipads. It is the flying distance in between. Roland. Sent from Samsung Mobile
