The book is an entertaining narrative about the myriad Indianisms to be found in the Englishused by a large percentage of Indians; the growing importance of Indian English in a worldof many Englishes; the ongoing tussle between the elite who speak the King's English andthose who speak in their mother tongue or mother-tongue-accented English; the effectof the IT boom on global English; and the changing attitudes of young Indians towards alanguage introduced by the Raj hundreds of years ago.