Fastest Growing Caste In India !! ?

Western Europe ( EU ) is like India, with so many linguistic states. But over there, when a German marries an Italian, they do not make their bad-English as their family's official language. The dominant one in the couple, or the country where they live, dictates what their major language is.
India, although similar to Eurozone (same currency, free market, mostly customs free, and many languagess) the language adapted by inter-X families is English.

Here is an old video that has a nice segment on English in India.

 

I am slowly slowly getting around to reading these linked articles. In this NYT article there is this:

Since independence, the influence and reach of English have grown immensely. It is impossible to arrive at a credible figure for the number of Indians who understand English (a lot), who can read it (many) or who can write it (very few).​

On that writing score, India would forever be mostly EC, and that Indo-anglian crowd could never get to be sizable enough to be a vote-bank, or a profitable segment to pitch goods/services.

 

@Urmila,
Another interesting thing I learned from the link you gave is this:

"Hindi films are now written in English — the instructions in the screenplays are in English, and even the Hindi dialogue is transcribed in the Latin alphabet. Mumbai’s film stars, like most educated Indians, find it easier to read Hindi if it is written this way."
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The adaptation of the latin alphabet had happened to languages (e.g., vietnamese, malay) in Asia already. If it happens to be stylish for Katrina Kaif (mentioned in that NewYorkTimes article) to use that script to read her Hindi dialogues, and other celebrities are doing that also, pretty soon we'd have a whole lot of rich people who are not English Comfortable at all. They'd be comfortable with whatever is their own language, but written in English script.

Many of us (me included) write words and phrases from Indian languages using the qwerty script that we are most familiar with. In wikipedia, there is something that sounds like the proverbial thin end of the wedge:

Romanized Hindustani:
The Latin alphabet has been used to write Hindustani for technological or internationalization reasons. Roman Hindi and Roman Urdu uses the basic Latin alphabet. It is most commonly used by young native speakers for technological applications, such as chat, emails and SMS.
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The reportage is in Tamil. A government school teacher in Villupuram district spent her own money to create a digital class room for her 3rd grade students.
She even bought them the class room furniture.
She said she changed all her lessons to a dialogue format of a drama, and therefore students are able to perform the plays, and get the right cadence.
It is a little hard to catch what they are saying, because on top of their dramatic cadence, they have the excited munchkin voice of childhood. So Sweet.



I wandered into this video ... and was so pleased that a non-urban school teacher is working very hard, spending her own money, to create a few EC's among her students.