Hinglish is full of cricket terminology and army metaphors, with echoes of P.G. Wodehouse and Dickens. It contains clunky puns and impeccably logical neologisms. In short, it is a delight." David Gardner on the pleasures of Hinglish. (The Babu speaks Binglish: an allied dialect, Bengali rather than Hindi influenced, where Thackeray (William Makepeace, not Bal) joins Dickens and where the ultimate insult is "You are a nonsense!")