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...fathers, sons, brothers, male cousins, and respective wives and families, is now a fading heirloom of India, as speculative real estate investments and construction booms have led more and more families to forgo this ages-old tradition of living together, called “saath-saath” in Hindi. Likewise, the family business is no longer the only source of livelihood for sons, since alternative opportunities abound. But some attribute even this modern move away from the “family as necessitated for economic stability” mantra to the timeless strain in extended family relations...
...country with almost a dozen Hindi words for “aunt” or “uncle,” depending on the exact relation, such a modern progression toward family breakdown and divide seems incongruous. But then again, partition in Indian history is a recurrent theme, referenced even in the Sanskrit epic “The Mahabharata,” where dividing the kingdom of Hastinapura among cousin, princely heirs is proposed as an alternative to war (although war inevitably ensues). In 1947, geographic partitioning of the subcontinent, intended to veil cultural-turned-political differences, later became...
...highlights Indian culture, still rooted in humility and family, as seemingly incompatible with the supply of rising incomes. Tastes turn to the West, visible even in the hallmark of Indian entertainment—Bollywood—as more expensive movies are filmed in foreign locations and now often feature Hindi subtitles with spoken English. (A Bollywood remake of The Hangover is due next year.) Admittedly, it would be misleading to overstate these generalizations—yet they are overtly glaring to an Indian-American...
KUTCH, India — In the rural region of Kutch in Northwest India, 140 kids—preschoolers through 7th graders—travel to Sadhu Vaswani School six days a week to learn math, science, social studies, English, Gujarati, Hindi, and basic computer skills. The school faces daunting challenges as it attempts to educate students from 14 regional villages, some more than 50 kilometers away, with only one school bus to provide transportation over these long distances. Most of the villages where students live did not have electricity until a few years ago, and most children...
...years. With the Renaissance came a big influx of more Latin words. You had the Scientific Revolution, so you had a big influx of Greek words. Then with colonialism, the language started taking words from everywhere. So you get words from the Iroquois languages, Sanskrit, Arabic, Javanese and Hindi. Most other languages don't tend to do that. Because English has taken words from all different languages, it has a whole bunch of competing spelling rules and systems, which makes the spelling bee more challenging...