Mind Your Lingo
Theories abound as to the glut of bad hanky panky passages from desi authors. Perhaps it’s in the blood - after all England has never had anything like the Kama Sutra or maybe it’s because we take it too seriously, and too literally. Whatever it is, it sure as heck makes for laugh out loud reading (as opposed to hot ‘n’ heavy, which may well have been the orignal intended effect!)
Soam Acharya, while examining Jon Carrol’s contention on English as practiced in India cites several examples of ‘bad Indian English’ that has generated lot of attention for desi authors.
























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