Question

What the writer Meenakshi Mukherjee is worried about in her essay ‘The Anxiety of Indianness’?
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Answer 1

The essay "The Anxiety of Indianness" is about the problem of culture and identity Indian writers face when they write.

Explanation:

• Meenakshi Mukherjee in her essay "The Anxiety of Indianness", talks about how Indian writers could write.
• She discusses whether the Indian writers could continue writing in the languages of their region and standby their own culture or whether they could write in English and find out a place/ space for them separately in the International segments.
• She also come up with another ideology of saying whether the Indian writers could write in English exclusive of Indian identity (Indian English).
• The whole essay deals with the anxiety or pressure of the writers -how they face and how they need to tackle it.