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How
to understand, and speak, IndiaN ENGLISH
Here is a compendium
of salient features of Indian English to take other English speakers
through the thicket of the variety of Indian English we speak and
write
S. Nihal Singh
Spoken
Indian English is recognisable the world over by the wrong accenting
of words such as industry (together with most Indians, the superstar
Amitabh Bachchan invariably mispronounces the word in his otherwise
fluent prose in promotion adverts) and mechanism. Nine out of 10
English-speaking Indians do not know how to pronounce ‘naïve’.
Then there is diction.
Red
tape and white lies
Balwinder Kaur
The Householder
By Amitabha Bagchi. Fourth Estate. Pages 239. Rs 399.
Corruption
and embezzlement have become as much a part of our government as the
rules they subvert and the system they blight; the ugly truth is that
we live in a kleptocracy. The Householder by Amitabha Bagchi
takes us behind the headlines of these bureaucratic and political
scams that have become a news staple and tries to answer the
questions; what kinds of people do these things and how these things
happen.
tete-a-tete
"In
cinema, writers are a necessary evil"
The USP of all performing
arts, believes theatre person Ranjit Kapoor, is whether they appeal to
the heart and the mind
Nonika Singh
IN
a way life has come full circle for thespian theatre-person Ranjit
Kapoor. Back in the 1970s, when he passed out of the hallowed portals
of the National School of Drama (NSD), he wanted to devote a lifetime
to theatre. Alas, exigencies of life and the difficulties he had to
face as a freelance theatre director forced him to move to Mumbai
while his heart was all the while in Delhi.
short takes
Variegated views on
India
Randeep Wadehra
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