Feb 5, 2018

India has a new caste for native English speakers only — Quartz

India has a new caste for native English speakers only — Quartz: Sometime around 2012 or 2013, my daughters stopped speaking in Konkani, our mother tongue. It isn’t entirely clear what provoked it, perhaps it was a teacher at their Mumbai school encouraging students to speak more English at home. Or perhaps it was something else. It doesn’t matter. What did matter was that our home became...

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