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Fictional counterpart to (much of) Rana Dasgupta's Capital: a Portrait of Twenty-First-Century Delhi?

Books I've actually finished lately: 15

lingua Dilliwalaha*

In a place - and a world - where a person's intellectual power is judged so much on the basis of their facility with the English language, I have chosen to make all characters in this book speak the same, standard, English so that their widely differing relationships to this language do not themselves become the issue.

- Rana Dasgupta, Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-first Century Delhi (forthcoming)
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* full adjectival credit to Rob Stroud