Translate Thoughts, do you ?


Until a decade ago… or even before may be the 80s and the 90s, writers in particular of Indian origin Indian have a different rhythm and rhyme to it, it has no punctuation or commas, it is one endless interminable tale… one leading into another… therefore, English for some never provided the apt words of expression!! or the rhyme and meter for the music … they wrote with gr8 difficult but with ease!

Skip to 2000s and most of us don’t feel any of these qualms, because we are born into the language called English, we think and talk in it, therefore there is no question of translation at all, or any impediments to even think of it as an alien or a secondary foreign language, we use it, sometimes better than our own mother tongue… so when asked, the identity crisis never seems to be a botheration for generations who grew up in the mid 90s and for almost all of them in the 200os.

But do these issues surface! anytime! Does it surface when they go to study abroad and meet people from other places or when they are married and expecting their children or when rearing their offsprings ? Are the NRIs more Indian than us, because they think about these issues more… and feel an urgency to connect to their roots!! 

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6 Responses to Translate Thoughts, do you ?

  1. Bikram says:

    Well I know I will be told off but I do think nri’s do so as u say the need to cinnect to the roots is more ..
    I have seen my friends cousins people I meet on vosits are too hi fi for me. The stuff they do the attitude etc etc is different.
    One thing that makes me laugh is the fake acxent.. Americanised version of it.. Why do they do it I have no idea….

    I will be talking in punajbi or hindi with them and they reply in english..that too in that phoney accent… But when I start then its like slow down bik….

    Strange I find.. Their is me trying hard to talk in mother tongue and there are some well a lot actually who are running away…

  2. Scribby says:

    hey more than the most my attention is on the blog :) the blog is looking awesome :) I got to try this theme for sure :)

  3. renu says:

    I have seen many people living abroaf for 20 years, but still the same traditional Indians, whereas some change just in 2 years and the best are those who loive in India but are totally angrej:)

  4. nisha says:

    Well, you can never take the Indian’ness from an Indian, NRI or no NRI. We’ll love our Diwali more than Christmas, enjoy Tandoori chicken and Chaat more than any burger or enchilada, love A.R.Rahman much more than the Bryans of the world.
    And if an Indian denies that, don’t trust him ever!

  5. Reema says:

    well there are people who maintain their individuality and then there are those who try hard to “fit in”

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