Can English be a medium of expression for Indian sensibiliti

As we talk about the use of language, I am reminded of something that my mother once told me. She has a Hindi speaking background but her education was in English. As such, she thought in Hindi but wrote in English. This wasn’t so much of a problem because writing for a news bulletin required more factual than creative skills. But when it came to creative writing, this didn’t work. It created a block in the flow of thoughts onto paper, whether it was in Hindi or in English. There was a discrepancy in what she thought and what she wrote. She then switched to ‘thinking’ in that language in order to be able to put across her thoughts lucidly, absolutely. To be able to write in English, she had to start thinking in English and not in Hindi and vice-versa.

The English language came to India with the British and influenced a small, miniscule section of the population. It was in this pre-independence period that Indian poets started writing in English albeit creating a dichotomy. Though they were writing in English, they were thinking in their traditional Indian languages. English was still an alien,

Parting with his poison -- flash of diabolic tail in the dark room --

powder, mixture, herb, and hybrid. He even poured a little paraffin

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