You may not have noticed, but you struck your own discreet little axe-blow in the North-South debate with a rather stereotypical misplacement of the h. (![]()
just in case; it's too early in the morning to be peevish and I AM in Chennai after all)
Bhasha is language, presumably in this context a vernacular (=Indian, not European) language;
Basha: well, I am not very sure, but I think they don't have this word in the North. In my part of the world, it means dwelling; sometimes, it is a suffix in Bengali, and usually forms part of a word which is among the first to be learnt by 'the other'. In case you've noticed, also part of my nom-de-mail.
Cheer up; the Greeks weren't/aren't much good at handling 'h' either; cf. Sindhu=Hindu=Indus.
Bonobashi =
bon -> Forest
basha -> To reside,
dwell, and so on.
Subash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Subash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:57:22 -0800,
"Radhika, Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Its not just about THe Hindu. Everybody ignores the vernacular press
> whereas distribution for these are much greater than times and or HT.
> North India and then ENglish speaking india have hijacked the identity
> of india. This Pakistani response also tells me how colonized they are
> that they generalize english speaking newspapers to all of india.
yes, i did want to refer to the basha ('regional', 'vernacular' are
strict no no :)) print media but then i only know (to some extent) what
is happening in the tamil press and what is happening there is not very
different from what is happening in the english media.
subash
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