Little little things, big big issues!
Little little things, big big issues! India is a country whose constitution mentions 22 scheduled languages even as we Indians speak in hundreds of dialects. Obviously, we would need one common language for communication. May I say ‘thanks to the British’ who unwittingly unified India and English began to be used as a tool for communication? (Let us skip lessons in history or patriotism for the time being.) No wonder then, though not our mother tongue, English has been happily accepted as the language of communication in our country. Yet, always ahead of the rest of the world in small inventions and big discoveries, we have made the best of it and now a researcher can compile a whole new dictionary of English expressions we have ‘Indianised’. These terms might sometimes pose a roadblock in verbal or written conversation for a native English speaker, but to us Indians, they make perfect sense. You might not find them in the conventional dictionaries but their roots are growing deeper ...