Who wrote The Otherness of English: India's Auntie Tongue Syndrome?
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Correct answer: A. Probal Dasgupta
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Probal Dasgupta (1993): English in India is an 'auntie tongue' — respected, useful, but not intimate like a mother tongue.
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