Author Claire Cowie

Claire Cowie

Claire Cowie is a sociolinguist at the University of Edinburgh, with a special interest in the effects of contact between English and other languages in India. She also works on ideologies of English in postcolonial settings. In her teaching she draws extensively on Bollywood, Nollywood, and cinema from South-east Asia.

Why You Don’t Leave? Bandra English and its Sources in Love Per Square Foot

May 2022

Love per Square Foot (Anand Tiwari, 2018), “Bollywood’s debut on Netflix” , is a romantic film with Mumbai as love object. The opening credits are a montage of the major landmarks of the city with its famous co...