Lecturer (Indic language/s), Leiden University (Netherlands), KHS (Agra), JNU (Delhi), Hindi, Urdu, Linguistics, Lit, भाषा, भाषाविज्ञान, साहित्य 🇮🇳 🇳🇱 ✍️🚲
Leiden, the Netherlands
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Delighted to have been interviewed by Devina Sengupta for this thoughtful piece on the growing use of expletives in the workplace. The article appears in today’s national edition of Mint.
livemint.com/opinion/online-…
November 2026 in a Hindi calender. It shows कार्तिक-मार्गशीर्ष (शालिवाहन शक संवत 1948). Kalnirnaya's Marathi version uses Amāvāsyānta system (lunar month ends on the new moon day), but its Hindi version uses Pūrṇimānt system (lunar month begins & ends on the full moon day).
Meet Caspar Reuvens (1793–1835), widely recognised as the world's first university professor of archaeology.
In 1818, at just 25 years old, Reuvens was appointed Professor of Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Posh
If you live nearby ur favorite area that means you live in a posh area. Literally - the word posh traces its origin in Welsh Romani Påš xā̊ra (half penny) where Påš (half) is a cognate of Hindi पास pās (near), both of which are ultimately connected to Sanskrit pārśva पार्श्व
I'm not so sure about corduroy, the popular etymology through French "corde du roi" (cloth of the king) has been falsified. This fabric is often traced to Fustian fabric from Egypt < Al-Fusṭāṭ (an old quarter of Cairo, Egypt). But the resemblance with Khurdare is noteworthy.
Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐 Public Linguist retweeted
>cradle of ancient empires
>long history of buddhism
>100M people on a fertile river plain
>agrarian peasants emigrate to coastal provinces for work
>now stereotyped as poor, backward, and dishonest
>anyway another normal day in Henan, China
pic unrelated btw
There used to be rare festival in Delhi (India), Great Indian Rock (GIR) Festival between 1997 to 2012. I attended some. Came to know of Avial (Nada Nada), Them Clones, Bhayank Maut, Them Clones, Pin Drop Violence, Nakshatra and of course Parikrama. What an energetic show, it was
Just came back from there.
You can buy two coffees and two Falafel rolls in around 25 GBP and find a chair near the smelly toilet if available.
Whenever I think about this gaffe, I can't stop laughing:
I once replied to another professor by writing his name as the sender. For example, Dear Jonathan....... Best regards - Jonathan Peirs. 😂 Dimag kahan hai!
Packing my bags 💼👜👝🎒👜 in 1882 while visiting India
(From the practical guide for persons about to reside in India, 1882, London)
Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐 Public Linguist retweeted
A quick analysis of the melody in this Uzbek song, and the same(!) in Karnataka music.
Sorry about singing in a very high pitch- mirrors the pitch in the Uzbek song so it would be easy to follow for even those uninitiated in music.
The Tamil movie song in hanumatodi
tanjAvUru maNNa eDuttu
youtu.be/KXM7nVYIn9c?si=YCoX…
The Syama Shastri gem in raga tODi
amba rAvE himagirikumAri
Vocal- Abhishek Raghuram
youtu.be/-Rt5l8upfKI?si=CZP_…
On the Veena
youtu.be/xw-cHprK4WM?si=_I0q…
Noticed that the starting sequence of this song is sampling - the intro of Hindi song "O re chhori" ओ रे छोरी from the film Lagaan (2001) by A R Rahman.
The words around us
I was listening to this Uzbek song by Xamdam Sobirov, and I realized what he sings peshta पेश्ता (terrace/balcony) in Uzbek is also there in Hindi in other words - पेश pesh (forward, in front as in peshkash = offer) & ताक tāq (arch, ledge, shelf) > पेश-ताक़
I have written earlier as well on Uzbek music and Xamdam Sobirov
teapawt.net/avtansa/status/1797264…
And this
teapawt.net/avtansa/status/1908288…
Mosquito boots
Mosquito boots were worn under trousers and skirts by British colonial men and women to protect their ankles and legs from mosquito bites. Made of soft brown sheep leather, they reached up to the knee.
This is unprecedented, never ever an International Airport has been named after a sitting PM in India. Better would have been to keep it named Noida International Airport, and may be name it as wished after PM steps down.
