Word: hindi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Asani says that growing up removed from the events in the subcontinent gave him a more unbiased perspective on South-Asian affairs, which is reflected in his teaching of Urdu-Hindi...
...teach them together; this [combined language] is what Gandhi called Hindustani. It's a very unusual language situation--the spoken language is almost identical," he says. "But once you get to classical literature, Hindi becomes Sanscritized and Urdu becomes Arabized or Persianized, so the languages become mutually incomprehensible...
...closes with an ending as refreshing and thought-provoking as the conclusion of Kate Chopin's The Awakening, as the audience is left to decide whether the women have indeed achieved the liberation they long for. Lusciously photographed and passionately told, with some of the year's most romantic Hindi music, Fire ignites the senses as well as the emotions...
...disease Jill Seaman battled is not new. In the 19th century, kala-azar ravaged much of eastern India, where it earned its name--Hindi for "black sickness." In 1900 a British physician, Dr. William Boog Leishman, developed a stain to detect the parasite with a microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen. In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani. Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America. A complex treatment involving daily injections of a potentially toxic, antimony-based compound (as in the drug Pentostam...
Despite such upheaval, Yangdon described her childhood in relatively idyllic terms, recalling the Catholic missionary school where she learned to speak English and Hindi...