‘O Devi Ma, even the dogs understand English’

Shashwati Talukdar sympathizes with Chandrabhan’s invocation to Lord Macaulay even as she enjoys the irony of using Shakespeare to advance the Hindutva agenda.

An interesting contrast to the view of Hindu Nationalists, for whom “Macaulay’s Children” is a favored insult for members of the English speaking Indian intelligentsia

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