Understanding Language as Communication (Intercultural Context) by Trilochan Pande

Have you ever wondered on all the immigrants from India who have made homes far from home in the Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago long ago and made 'Unaccustomed Earth' their motherland but, still, carry the roots from India and our cultural heritage gets metamorphosed into the cultures of the land they have adopted.

This book is a very interesting analogy of the 'Indian Professor' deputed to living 3 years in Trinidad to teach the Hindi language to the locals. There are a lot of new musings like 'lyming' means idle chit-chat; The pappy show means 'making fun of'; honky - unskilled labour (whites); Pecker-lazy, ignorant & rustic person (whites).

There is a lot of character and message spread wider being the vox populi, like the following quotes immortalised by the poets with an ironical tones used against the British empire. "London Bridges falling down" which is popular even today.

The sysem won't change, Unless we the people change.
Between the Black and White man, we want freedom
My people's demand, I quote - Is simply, one man, one vote
Yuh foolin yuhself, and yuh think yuh foolin me
Girl - yuh face hard like a steel band pan. - (To the British girl)
Black man don't get nothing easy
In the West Indies, Cricket is played according to colour
Ah - want me grand father's back pay
Yankees gone, and the Sparrow takes over now
I like bananas, because they have no bones
You ill never find a lover like me
Honey, I m bound to go

They quoted projecting the personality of the singer or the poet as an impetus to performance:

'What I've done for all mankind, Must be remembered, as I'm getting Blind - Lord Executor (whatever he had done was not for personal benefit)

Never mind whatever measures are employed. Kaiso is art, and cannot be destroyed - Attila the Hun (any art form has to face severe opposition anywhere)

But if it is blood, sweat and misery, We going to fight, till we get our Liberty - King Radio (the Nation's spirit speaking in such a way that cannot be suppressed)

Between Capitalists, Union and Government, You can't tell, who guilty or who innocent - Mighty Unknown (there is a sense of reality and no one is to be blamed fully in a situation)

It is an editorial in a song, of the live we undergo, That and only that I know, is true Calypso - Iron Duke       (The definition of 'Calypso' the most appropriate in two simple words "editorial" and "song")

Wearing Dashiki all that may be fine. But changing yuh clothes, doesn't change yuh mind - Black Stalin (the superiority of the mind has been asserted which is in line with their tradition)

Come! experience the music as language is being used both as an action and as a motion moving effortlessly from verbal into the non verbal channel and skillfully presented in the "medium" of Intercultural Exchange.....