It was only after I was 16, I think (such were the allocations of my bvacations/b), that I witnessed an actual Saraswati Puja in Calcutta, with its perfume of khoi and bananas, and its weird domestic comedy of textbooks piled before the b....../b In this sense, every language, to use bVolosinov's/b term, is always multi-accentual. Bakhtin, thanks to the bureaucratic authoritarianism of Stalinism and post-Stalinism, was never able to push this argument to its political logic by ...
