Originally Posted by
Marbles
It is my observation that in the case of South Asian literature in English there's a big gulf between novels written directly in English and those produced in national/local languages. In this case the choice of language determines to a great extent one's point of view, moral standpoints and cultural and intellectual references that writers make use of in their works. A sort of de facto liberal understanding of the world pervades in literature written in English, somewhat contrived and forced, and often writers set to write about the 'home society' from an outsider's point of view, not really getting under the skin of things, not really writing from inside the cultural milieu they claim to represent.
