not sexual and therefore cannot be used to define the virginity of women (Dotson-Blake et al.,2012; Duby et al.,2016a,2016b). Such institutionalized beliefs influence interpersonal and individual scripts by shaping the perceptions, interpretations, and attitudes of people belonging to that religion...
It is possible that in-spite of having the same meaning, changing of context changes the implication of a word in one language, not in another. For example, the Hindi word “takleef” (तकलीफ़) is commonly used for discomfort related to a physical activity or an ...
1970. Hindistani English, Rubdy 1975, Marathi English, Gokhale 1978 Marathi English, Dhamija, 1976 Rajasthani English, Prabhakar Babu 1974 Telugu English Vijayakrishnan 1978, Tamil English, indicate that Regional Indian Englishes is set apart by 'simplification of consonant clusters, retroflection, ...
One interesting aspect in Pondicherry is that even a monolingual Hindi/Bengali can live in Ashram area without learning Tamil. English is the sole contact languages for Aurovilleans. (Note, however, such pockets or locations, where the dominant regional language is not known to the residents of ...
I don’t know if I mentioned this specifically, perhaps not in a letter, though maybe when we met up before I left to come and live here here for good, but part of what pushed me to make this radical life change was the need to feel that my existence had meaning, that I was spen...
Nestlé, meanwhile, is still struggling to make sense of what exactly transpired. To counter the accusations of Indian health officials, Nestlé has produced voluminous tests—on more than 3,500 samples—that it says show its instant noodles are perfectly safe, with lead counts well below the le...
Since both Rahi and Adda are hugely successful, the expectation was that they would capitalize on that success by repeating it, but in spite of all the pressure to do that, they have not. Pandya’s soaring moment of enlightenment came when he was struggling with the creation of a new menu...
That’s when our ___ began, mostly one-way. I started by asking in Hindi, “Why did these rickshaw pullers say no when I offered the___price?” His ___ answer was in English, “Madam, these guys aren’t___and they think foreigners are all rich and ask for much more.” Hear...
It comes from a Hindi word meaning "embankment." Due to the expansion of the British colonial empire in the 1800s, it was common for Anglo-Indian terms to be adopted in the major trading ports of Asia at that time. Was Shanghai a British colony?
The initial proposal to adopt Hindi as National Language was dropped, as it provoked conflict in a country in which language differences often reinforced ethnic or religious divisions. The Education Policy was devised to provide for link languages that would aid in the assimilation of minority ...