Is There Anything Like Indian English Poetry? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Is there anything like Indian English language
Or Indian English poetry?
Interestingly, the English chose it not to settle in here
And even if they, mingled they up with
To be called the Anglo-Indians,
The skin turned it a bit black-complexioned
As for the dry weather and the heat of the day,
The blazing heat and the scorching sun
Of the restless and long summer.

What it disturbs us most is this that it is not spoken
Even in a village,
Nor has it a feeder dialect of its own,
Just as a written language,
A grammatical exercise
It is practised,
Learnt laboriously,
The official language of the administration,
The school, college, court, police station.