An increasingly globalised India is churning out children who speak only English
04:45 AM Jun 04, 2012
BANGALORE - Mr Sudhir Nagaraj and his wife Bidisha live in Bangalore, capital of the state of Karnataka and India's third most populous city. She, a Bengali speaker from a family hailing from the east, heads marketing for a social networking start-up. He, fluent in the native Kannada tongue of Bangalore, runs a subsidiary of a multinational telecommunications company. Between them, they speak half a dozen Indian languages.
Quite ironic then that their daughter, Ahana, 6, growing up in a country with a profusion of tongues, speaks only one language - impeccable English. And English is the common tongue that binds the Nagaraj family. Lire la suite...