Lata Mangeshkar attended school only for a day, learnt Marathi alphabets from house help She learnt the Marathi alphabet from her house help who taught the singer to read and write the basics.

She learnt Marathi alphabets from her house help who taught the singer to read and write the basics.

"We have given Marathi alphabets books to 300 north Indian taxi drivers in Kurla and set a 40-day deadline to learn the language," Maharashtra Navnirman Vahtuk Sena president Haji Arafat Sheikh said.