The Himachal Pradesh government has been proudly sending teachers on costly foreign exposure visits so they may return brimming with new methods to uplift the quality of education in government schools. But back home in Sirmaur, a cheque signed by the principal of Government Senior Secondary School, Ronhat, has done more to expose the state of education than any overseas study tour ever could.

The cheque, worth Rs 7,616, has gone viral not for the money it carried, but for the linguistic acrobatics it displayed. While the numbers were correctly penned, the words have etched themselves into internet history: “Saven Thursday six Harendra sixty rupees only”. One social media user remarked that if Shakespeare were alive, he might have quietly retired after reading this.

For the public, it wa

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