Francesca Orsini is Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics, SOAS, University of London.

Ravikant is Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and Coordinator, Language and Media Project, Sarai.

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Introduction: Francesca Orsini & Ravikant        

1. Why Hinglish is a process and not a language: Ratnakar Tripathy

2. One whisky and one masala dosa: The many meanings of Hinglish in advertising: Santosh Desai

3. Hinglish is cool yaar!: Ravi Ratlami (Translated by Mehak Sawhney)

4. Hindi in the time of remix: Hinglish and Navbharat Times: Rohit Prakash (Translated by Francesca Orsini)

5. ‘Not too nanga-panga?’: Variety, mixing, and stratification in a Hinglish chick lit novel: Francesca Orsini

6. ‘Hindi hain hum’: Publishing in Hinglish: Aakriti Mandhwani

7. ‘Hinglishtani’ cinema: Historicising the contemporary: Ravikant

8. ‘I do fatafat constipation with goras in tip-top gora English’: Hinglish and English accents and speech in Jab Tak Hai Jaan: Helen Ashton & Rachel Dwyer

9. Hinglish signage@small town bazaar: Ravikant

10. The insurrectionary lateral-ness of Bhojpuri media: Akshaya Kumar

11. Hinglish hierarchies: The two-way process of linguistic humiliation on reality TV in India: Mohini Gupta

12. Hinglish FM: Kuch political ho jaye: Vineet Kumar

13. Bad, good and appropriate English: Negotiating English proficiency in Bangalore, India: Sazana Jayadeva

14. Fluidity, scale, and the colonial experience: A postcard from Senegal: Friederike Lupke

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