It would be interesting to question the significance of writing in English and if it really did help some of these writers to break from the social shackles. One could discuss Kancha Illaiah’s Why I’m not a Hindu and also ‘Introduction’ by Kamala Das. For both of the mentioned writers, English, in my opinion [...]

Indian writers who wrote in English about a century ago were largely neglected or looked down upon by other Indian writers as well as English writers. The writers who wrote in vernacular languages had a sort of contempt towards those who wrote in English. We must note that vernacular writing was both religious and secular. [...]