On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 12:15 +0530, Nishant Shah wrote:
> any other languages? I can't even think of any in Gujarati!

speaking of gujarati... perhaps it's due to my limited exposure to that
language, but whenever i think of it i remember the passages in
_midnight's children_ [1] where the bombay language riots are supposedly
caused by marching gujaratis bumping into marching marathis as the
narrator looks on, the latter shouting a supposed parody of the gujarati
language: "su chhey saru chhey danda leykey maru chhey". 

i'm not sure i understood all the nuances of that phrase.

-rishab

1. a great book, but so much so that rushdie seems never to write any
other.


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