WHEN ANGLICISING BECOMES THE NORM AND MEN TAKE PRIDE IN IT
Audrey Hepburn, while announcing the awarding of the Lifetime Oscar to Satyajit Ray, could pronounce his surname the way it is pronounced in Bengali but our Bengali journalists till date take pride in mispronouncing the film maker's surname in a manner that makes him kith and kin to the 'Suryavangshees' (members of the Solar dynasty or the Ikshvaku dynasty). To pronounce Ray (to be correctly pronounced 'Raaye') as 'ray' is to demean him for he was not just a ray of the sun but the veritable sun itself. And he was no kinsman of Bhagvan Raamchandra !
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