That story is told often by H. Y. Sharada Prasad, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Like many in the Indian upper class, Prasad is a student of Indian English or, as he puts it, "the language written or spoken by Indians in the belief that it is English."
For example, where else but India do you take your damaged auto to a repair shop to be "dented"? Where else do marriageable women advertise in the newspapers for "boy-looking, handsome husbands," or men for "thin, wheatish, homely girls?"
Surely, there is no other place where two men greet each other: "How are you I hope?" - "O yes."
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