What were the problems that the Indian writers faced while writing in English ? ( ITS URGENT!!!!!!!)?

Question

The writers were faced with hinderances like culture, language and form of writing ; while expressing their thoughts in English. I want to know in detail what exactly the problems were and how they affected Indian writings in English? ( PLEASE HELP - ITS VERY URGENT)

Answer 1

tough homework question, huh?

Answer 2

1. In the past, if you wrote only with an Indian audience in mind, few Indians would buy your books, and you would be poor. You had to write to impress Western editors, and appeal to a Western audience. This meant your writing may not have been authentic.
2. There are now many more Indian readers of English-language books, but Indians still vastly prefer a writer who has been successful in the West or praised by Western critics. Therefore, most such writers are relatively poor, or at least not rich (Chetan Bhagat is an exception, as is Shobha De and Khushwant Singh.)
3. Language is a problem, and is not a problem. If you have grown up with a strong vernacular influence, then your English will or may reflect that. However, this is not necessarily or always a bad thing; your writing, as an Indian writer writing in English, will be more authentic if it has at least some Indian echoes, rather than if you wrote as if you were born and grew up in Scotland.
4. English and American idioms and colloquialisms were at least until recently--and still, partly--not natural to us, and our language lacked that kind of color.

Answer 3

What kind of problems r u talking about?All Indian authors are very fluent in English(for example, it seems even Englishmen had to seek the help of the dictionary while reading Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy) and their writings have been about Indians in India or abroad.

So I do not think that they would have faced any problem while expressing themselves-except maybe the Writers' Block which is common among all writers across the globe...

Answer 4

sweetu beta ever heard of a place called librarary. i am an english professor, sorry i cant write in much detail but here are some points
1] writers like rk laxman used very simple language in order to keep their[indian writers] thought process right they had to train themselves in a new way of thinking.
2] second of all their authenticity was in question even their real works could have been labelled as fiction.

Answer 5

it was more of grammatical problems as they wrere not that goood in english and also wlat of writig problems like the language etc....
to kno more details y dont u check out "winkepedia " or search sumwhere on the net most preferable google

Answer 6

indians have prob. w. the eng. language coz they dun speak as their 1st lang. also in specific indians fr which country? if they r not v intellectual then they may face lang. prob. i dun think d prof. indians have prob.

Answer 7

When you talk with yourself inside, what is it? Its not English!

Thats the problem!

Answer 8

I think it is all about sentence structure. Example like in english we say: Who are you?
But in chinese the words placement is : You are who?

Strange, eh?

Answer 9

Email me. You should not come into any problems what so ever. did a project like this years ago and it was brilliant. good luck.