Shankar was very fond of English . His ambition in life was to speak English fluently --"Others should wonder at me speaking in English ," he would say . He had been learning English for the past TWENTY YEARS or so , still his " English is not doing well". He was always 'mourning' for not having sufficient fluency in English. For the past two days he was babbling something like "beggars" ,. "beggars " ... His sister Vanitha asked him , " What happened to beggars , what are you telling ?" Shankar replied : " I have been trying for years , but can't master English . But even the beggars are speaking SO FLUENTLY in English , in USA."