The fusion of English and Hindi known as ‘Hinglish’ used to be frowned upon. Now, even TV news seems to think it’s OK. When I was young, children were encouraged to read newspapers and ...

Hinglish goes back centuries, says Karthik Venkatesh, executive editor at Penguin Random House India. “And it’s all around us too. So many of us speak it every day without even realising it ...

When it comes to raising awareness about preserving the planet or not leaving a child behind or selling a product or making a movie, nothing gets more eyeballs in India than a splatter of Hinglish.

The man-child has long been an archetype in Bollywood films – and this character’s clumsy use of Hinglish, the linguistic hybrid of Hindi and English, is one of his defining traits. In the 1958 ...