@HamishH1931@ChrisBentham89 A quick query: is the use of " according to me" (p.3) in Roy's memoir a concession to Indianisms or is it a standard English usage now, as editorially approved by Penguin here ?
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Hi, I liked Arundhati Roy's recently published book, Mother Mary Comes to Me. A quick query: is the use of " according to me" (p.3) in this book a concession to Indianism or standard English usage now, as editorially approved by Penguin here ?
Heard an engaging talk on " English & Our Many Selves" by Rita Kothari of Ashoka University at Bangalore International Centre. It was nice to see Ramachandra Guha there.
Jan Suraj Party in Bihar will undergo a process of churning and internal cleansing. The party has to survive that challenge. During the past many years, it is the best thing that has happened in the politics of Bihar.
@chitraSD Much kudos to you, Chitra jee,for writing an engaging https://t.co/kh4Pq5mZCn was a good idea to parlay your passion into an absorbing text. It's a compulsive page turner and I hope I'll finish it this week. BTW, I first read your reports in The Statesman in the 1980s.
@Chellaney If india expel Pakistani embassy personnel , Pakistan will also do the same. Our Embassy in Pakistan may also be coordinating with 'unknown assets'. Hard action against the Pak embassy will affect that as well.
@RekhaGuptaDelhi The anchor's fulmination proved to be inconsequential, as usual. Responsible governments are not run by the media campaigns.The fact is that the Modi government went by President Trump's statement-regardless of how it was put out.We shouldn't be carried away by TV channels.
बिहार वासियों के लिए जन सुराज कोई विकल्प नहीं , अब एकमात्र आशा और उम्मीद है यह दल, जो बिहारियो के लिए बात करता है ।।
क्योंकि बिहार के बाकी दोनों गठबंधन अभी भी बस सड़क - बिजली - पानी की बात करते है ।। जो की मूलभूत सुविधाएं है और काफी पहले ये काम हो जाने चाहिए था ।। लेकिन जन सुराज शिक्षा - रोजगार की बात करता है जिसकी सख्त जरूरत है बिहार को ।।
It is a moral duty of Biharis now to support Jan Suraj , regardless of how it fares forward in the upcoming 25 legislative polls, and root for this political option. The other contenders for power in the state lack a credible mission.
@republic Such TV debates are futile in that the set participants stick to their strong ideological positions and the host has his own predilection. In such chat shows we don't see anything more than an indulgence in the bourgeois luxury of sparring.
@republic Mr Stalin has a point. Why is Tamil not taught in the Hindi heartland ? Mr Salve is not quite correct in that a united India does not mean obliteration of regional identity wedded to diverse languages with an entrenched roots and heritage.
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@rahulkanwal@ARanganathan72 Mr Rahul Kanwal, if I heard Mr Ranganathan correctly, he mentioned that Babar reached up to Bakhtiyarpur. May I request him to share with us the source from which he got these details !