A PLEA FOR INDIC

How books take shape, how other works half done, and even drafts completed just to be perused finally before passing them over to publisher, are kept in abeyance and a new idea makes claim to all the fire and fury in your reserve, is not known even to the author in advance.

I was going to edit and brush up six volumes that were almost complete, and all of a sudden my attention was drawn to an article published in OUTLOOK and it changed the entire game. Now I am writing a book on Liberating Indian Mind in a language which mocks my competence.

We call English to be one of the national languages of India but unlike many other countries that evolved an English of their own, we could not evolve an Indian English in which linguistic indulgences common among Indians could be accepted as normal and we could be spared the embarrassment caused by not adhering to British grammatical rules.

If English has to be here, it should, like American, be Indic rather than English