English is everywhere in Gujarat. English-medium education, English-language movies, English loanwords peppering newspaper articles and everyday speech. The penetration of the language into everyday life in Gujarat is nothing new. What might be ne…

A strange thing happened at some point between 2006 and now. It seemed quite unremarkable for many of the people I spoke to this summer in Gujarat, some of whom said that they had not even noticed the change until I pointed it out. But it struck me as a pretty significant shift in the […]