Volume 5 Issue 3
This issue, the second of two on Language, is themed ‘Language and Expression’, and contains six stories. In The Burning Stories, a storyteller in an ancient land is banned from using the language of the court and turns to the language of the people to get his tales across. An old woman and her great-grandchild bridge a linguistic chasm to bring a dying language back to life in The Last Song of the Desert. Konkani Mai uses the backdrop of a state’s language agitation to tell the story of the personal travails of two of its speakers. In Found in Translation, old Ajoba has fun with words and terms that don’t quite transfer well from one language to another. Expanding on this theme, intrepid time travellers Hobson and Jobson explore the weird and wacky world of Indian English in Walking English Talking English. And finally, Politics of Language is a lament to the loss of a language to time and negligence.
