Globalisation which had brought the English language so close to ordinary people through internet played a crucial role in this development. Rowling over Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer or Thakazhi Shivashankara Pillai is not the real concern here, but the fact that there are no many writers in the present day scenario who manage to get past the overwhelming influence of foreign writers using the flavour of regional literature. The importance given to Dan Brown or J.K. This phenomenon is found more in South India, Kerala in particular where English learning has taken importance over Malayalam. This resulted in the development of a “look down up on” attitude towards the regional literatures. Instead, the colonizers language takes over and mastering the foreigner’s language had by then been established as the key to climbing the charts of social status. After the withdrawal of the colonizers from the land, not many people preferred to preserve and develop the ancestral language and impart it to the next generation. Ngugi Wa Thiong’O in his famous essay “The Language of African Literature” has pointed out the adverse impacts of the colonizers language and culture on that of the colonized.
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