Regional Tongues and Literary Identities: Harnessing a language on the move with writer Sitanshu Yashaschandra

“The colonial master Macaulay famously said that all Indian literature could be accommodated on a single shelf in a library of European literature. And yet, I write literature in a language as old and rich as the languages of those who set up “vernacular schools” in colonially controlled Gujarat in the 19th century. He did not know….