GOODBYE PARTY FOR MISS PUSHPA T.S: A PARODY

This paper focuses light on the use of present progressive tense instead of simple present tense, ironical situations, literal translation, Babu English by Nissim Ezekiel in the poem „Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S’. This poem includes in “Hymns and Darkness” is one of Ezekiel"s very Indian Poems in Indian English. The poem is a hilarious parody of and biting satire on the idiolectical features of English spoken by people from Gujarat. The paper gives close attention on common Indian use of the present progressive.