On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Thejaswi Udupa thejaswi.ud...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Chew Lin Kay chewlin@gmail.comwrote:
Hello!
So I was reading an essay about Indian food, when they mentioned the
adoption of Sanskritized Hindi. Can someone explain what that
I've always felt that Hindi is a relatively young concept as an independent
language (not able to pin down an exact period in a few google searches
yet). But I loved this line from the Wikipedia entry [1]
Due to religious nationalism and communal tensions, speakers of both Hindi
and Urdu
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Thejaswi Udupa thejaswi.ud...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Chew Lin Kay chewlin@gmail.comwrote:
Hello!
So I was reading an essay about Indian food, when they mentioned the
adoption of Sanskritized Hindi. Can someone explain what that
Dibyo [22/05/12 14:43 +0800]:
How true is that? I can't tell them apart, but I'm very far from being the
person to be asked.
Well .. there are some words you can tell ARE from urdu
nazar for sight
ishq for love
mubarak ho instead of badhaai ho for congratulations
etc. Words from 50s and 60s
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
The hindi dialects in several places (cities such as hyderabad and lucknow)
that have a largely mixed population are heavily urdu flavored compared to
the hindi spoken in some other places, so there's a geographic
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
class since he drew parental lineage from Genghis Khan and Tamur Lane
(as did Babur, and every chest thumping Mughal - no one wants to be
descended from any lesser source it seems). However he did indeed
This is like
Cheeni, you did read what I wrote about urdu originally evolving as a lingua
franca for Mughal troops of various ethnicities (arab, turk, farsi, afghan,
uzbek, tajik etc + various indian ethnic groups)?
In fact it was originally called lashkari (army speech) for that reason ..
Poetry in urdu is
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
This is like every Syrian Christian family is either descended from
original Brahmin families converted by St Thomas himself or from the
Knanaya Jews led by Thomas of Cana to Kerala c. AD 800.
Do the Muslims of Malabar
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com
wrote:
This is like every Syrian Christian family is either descended from
original Brahmin families converted by St Thomas himself or from the
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Sainath (to me, at least) is a case of someone who is so blinded by his
chosen set of blinkers that he has no perspective at all on anything.
Some background on the feelings of at least some of the members of this
list can
I thought it was bit far-fetched. Reassured now. Thanks.
Regards
J.A.P.
On 20 May 2012 17:27, Anish anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote:
**
I can confirm that a work collegeue of mine, who has worked in europe for
various folks never returns his hotel cards and makes sure that he
destroys it.
On May 22, 2012, at 1:08 AM, Deepak Shenoy wrote:
Is there a problem with his doing so as a tax dodge?
To answer your question: I think it's kind of slimy, myself, and the laws in
place don't really bother me. The fact that Saverin might not ever be given a
visa to come back to the USA?
I have friends who have renounced USian citizenship because they could not
abide what they perceived as fascism at home and/or imperialism (or worse)
abroad. I also have a niece who recently renounced her USian citizenship --
she was born in the USA to American parents, but has lived since the
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:17 AM, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
Re: Supposed:
Hmm. . .
Amusing and intriguing.
I'm amused that a minor piece of phrasing that gives the benefit of
the doubt bothers you so much.
The way of life that America has chosen for itself isn't by any
stretch
On May 22, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Deepak Shenoy wrote:
I don't honestly
get the outrage -
I don't get the outrage either -- the outrage of Grover Norquist and other all
taxes are evil Republicans. Evidently they're all over the TV cry-babying
about poor Mr. Saverin and how US tax laws as the
On 22-05-2012 09:24, Chew Lin Kay wrote:
Hello!
So I was reading an essay about Indian food, when they mentioned the
adoption of Sanskritized Hindi. Can someone explain what that is? I
thought Hindi draws roots from Sanskrit, but this seems to be more
complicated than that. Will offer thanks
On May 22, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
bothers you so much.
It doesn't bother me. It amuses me. I think it's kind of curious.
jrs
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
Maybe. Maybe he'll re-apply for Brazillian citizenship, and then we'll find
out. I could become quite the soap opera!
He still has it. Brazilian citizenship is hard to lose. Supposedly you
should lose it if you get
if he moved back to Brazil one might have
even called him a patriot that returned.
Maybe. Maybe he'll re-apply for Brazillian citizenship, and then we'll find
out. I could become quite the soap opera!
He does have a brazilian passport - you can't be a citizen of
no-country, so when you
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