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Friday, May 2, 2025

Difference between IWE and ILET

What is IWE? What is ILET?

There is a difference between Indian writings in English (IWE) and Indian Literatures in English Translation (ILET).

The Indian writers in English write for readers whose mental picture galleries hold only those words that describe, match, and link up Indian experiences in English without hitting speed breakers. But Indian writing in English is so attractive to those readers outside India who cannot read our languages but yearn for the exotic and layered flavours of the material aspects of our country. They are under a powerful illusion that these Indian flavours are reaching them in English.

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