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'Engglishhh': A satire on the most misspelt language

New Delhi: Seeing strange spellings of some Hindi television soaps, writer Altaf Tyrewala coined a new term ‘Engglishhh', which he says is an antidote to the world's most inauspiciously spelled language.Compiled by a team of

“And so, democracy is now dmoocrcy, colonialism is still colonialism, globalisation is gloobliation and so on,” he says.

For a detailed word-by-word numerological analysis, he advises readers to refer to the five-volume Guuidee Too Engglishhh.



All these find mention in Tyrewala's new book “Engglishhh: Fictional Dispatches from a Hyperreal Nation”, published by HarperCollins India imprint Fourth Estate.

So is speaking in Engglishhh a necessity? No, says the author as the psychic benefits of Engglishhh are most acute in the written form.



So be it a love poem in Engglishhh; about Arnold MmYum who leaves his bench outside a popular eatery to discover the city of animate beings or a purveyor-director of cinematic porn or even a watchman who counts the seconds to death, Tyrewala's words are sharp with irony and each story is slashed through with deftly satirical insights into the ways of men and the worlds they inhabit.

Mumbai-based Tyrewala has also authored “No God in Sight” and “Ministry of Hurt Sentiments”.

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