Minding Our Language
Jan 11, 2020
2 minutes
—Alok Rai
Kalpana Mohan has a rather cavalier way with language. Her metaphors are constantly doing alarming things.
Is Hinglish capable of yielding something more than sociology, parody and Kangana Ranaut?
So, on the very first page, her mother is reported as “failing...to savour the kinks and clefts of language”—which, on second thought, might be just
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