I don’t know about Animal’s People, but here’s a people’s animal.

Haha…God bless the Daily Mail for its insightful coverage of veterinary God-complex.

Karan Mahajan’s first novel, “Family Planning,” will be published by HarperCollins in the fall.

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Why did the nun speak no Hindi? And when the nun went back to France did she, in typical French fashion, expect every foreigner no matter how recent to speak flawless, unaccented French?

From Animal’s People: “Ma Francie speaks no Hindi because “on that night all sorts of people lost all kinds of things, lives for sure, families, friends, health, jobs, in some cases their wits. This poor woman, Ma Franci, lost all knowledge of Hindi. She’d gone to sleep knowing it as well as any Khaufpuri, but was woken in the middle of the night by a wind full of poison and prophesying angels. In the great mela of death … her mind was wiped clean of Hindi, and of Inglis too, which she had also been able to speak …”

[oh, and Animal probably speaks some French because he was raised in a French orphanage, with other French nuns]

How can Animal possibly learn French from a woman who speaks no Hindi?

In the same way countless Indians and Africans learnt/learned to speak French, English, German, Spanish, Dutch or even that useless language Italian from a people who were so linguistically challenged they couldn’t even call us by our proper names. The correct question really is: why did the nun speak no Hindi? And when the nun went back to France did she, in typical French fashion, expect every foreigner no matter how recent to speak flawless, unaccented French.

How do such stupid people get to write book reviews?

Roop, the tip line is here.