Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:59:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Indian vernacular writing anno 1997


As I implied in my last response to Josna's response to you - is this not the problem of location for "postcolonial studies" as a field?

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Thomas Palakeel wrote:

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> I was expecting there would be a volley of responses from readers of various regional literatures of India. Why the silence? (Shamelessly I admit, I am one of those readers (Malayalam) and I ought to be making my own voice heard. Instead, I think, it is much more interesting if I just challenged everyone else to respond.
> Aren't there any natives out there? Are they all Englishwallahs who can't read
> any of those "vernaculars". One of the most interesting observations Arundhati Roy
> made on her wonderful Charlie Rose appearance was that in India most people don't really know any language, although too many claim they know English and many other regional languages. Guess what Charlie Rose asked? How come all these wonderful English stuff coming out of India? Are the Indians doing that good of a job with education? (something to the effect.)
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