I was looking up "Indian English" on Wikipedia today, in an attempt to try and figure out what it is that I speak (no clue), and came across singly *the* most unintelligible article I've ever read on that (otherwise amazing) website.
Here are some pearls :
1. In devanagiri script of Hindi, all alveolar plosives of English are transcribed as their retroflex counterparts (so that they can't be flexed back)
2. All major native languages of India lack interdental fricatives (because we brush our teeth?)
3. Mostly in south India, some speakers allophonically further change the voiced retroflex plosive to voiced retroflex flap ... (egad!)
Well, fuck me, but can someone speak English please?
Some strange facts, though : The following are things Wikipedia claims are normal only in Indian English, whereas I was under the impression it was totally natural everywhere .. well, everywhere except America!
1. The use of the word "gift" as a verb
2. "pass out" (as in, to graduate from college/school)
3. "go for a toss" (as in, a plan goes phut)
4. Use of "Respected Sir" while starting a formal letter
5. Saying "one patty" (as in "two beef patties")
6. Use of the word "dress" to refer to any clothes (male or female)
... and more like that. Kinda fun, reading this :)