August Books 14) Battle for Bittora, by Anuja Chauhan

[nwhyte]

This is hilarious and amazing. Thank you so much to rmc28 for passing it on to me. It's the story of a young woman whose political grandmother summons her back to their home town and makes her the election candidate for India's traditional party of power; meanwhile the opposition have recruited as their candidate the chap who she always used to fancy. I

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[whswhs]

I have rather been wondering how long it will take before Indian English is the worldwide standard form. The increasing move to having books-including scholarly books-copy edited through Indian typesetting firms can only accelerate this.

[nwhyte]

I dunno; think of New Testament times when although everyone spoke Koine Greek, classical remained the standard; or indeed India itself where Hindi took a long time to emerge as official language in the shadow of Sanskrit and Urdu! We are in different times of course, but I reckon that by the time Hinglish becomes standard, English itself will have been supplanted by Chinese.

[rmc28]

I'm really pleased you liked it, and thanks for finding the film news.