*Obviously this Indian professor of English is trying to be provocative, so, what the heck, I'm going to help him.
*A happy Independence Day to India, the part of a Partitioned region which is NOT currently underwater, completely beset with terrorists of its own making, and risking a massive cholera epidemic. Say what you like about the World's Largest Democracy, they must be doing something right, or they wouldn't look so golden compared to all the people around them.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?266672
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"It is often said that the trouble with Indian writing in English is that English is not an Indian language. Actually, the problem is exactly the opposite—English is an Indian language. It is here, endowed with a legacy, associations with class and privilege that one might well wish were different. There is a powerful class of people for whom it is virtually a first language—indeed, their only language. There are many others for whom it will always remain entirely foreign. The cruel, damaging sense of inferiority that is inflicted on the non-English knowing is only half the tragedy implicit in this configuration. The worst of it is the wholly undeserved sense of superiority, the insensitive arrogance which characterises that highly visible section of the elite, whose sole intellectual and cultural asset is the ability to gabble away in a kind of semi-literate, fluently moronic English."
(((I know this essay wasn't intended for my ears, but "gabbling away in a kind of semi-literate, fluently moronic English" has always been the American prerogative.)))
