A very though-provoking article on the Foreign Policy blog about how (or does) writing an article, a short story or a novel in English about India and Indians actually water down the “Indian-ness” of the content:

But the tension has taken on a new form amid the growing appeal of the “global novel” — a story that is pitched not just to a national but a worldwide audience, and thereby necessarily written in English. As the Indian novel in English, assisted by India’s rising profile in global affairs, finds an audience wherever English is spoken, it often seems to sacrifice the particularities of Indian experience for a watered-down idiom that can speak to readers across the globe.