The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 18 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the complete report. Continue reading 2015 in review
Though it’s language or, more appropriately, speech that makes humans different from other mammals or animals in general. But it is language itself that brings differences among the humans. Though I’ve been staying in Bangalore since a year and a half, I still don’t understand it’s chief language Kannada. Neither do I understand the other popular languages – Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. Yes, I agree it’s my fault, I should have taken the initiative. Because I didn’t know Kannada, the localites didn’t misbehave with me, that’s a good thing. I have been managing to survive here with my knowledge … Continue reading Conspiracies of Language
Thanks to my english professor that you find me writing this prompt. It’s been only one and a half years since I came to Bangalore. Just after I few months I arrived, officially the city’s name changed to Bengaluru. Bangalore sounds fancy, the name sort of reflects the city’s cosmopolitanism. But Bengaluru sounds quite traditional. Actually, that’s what the government wanted. Kannada speaking state capital should sound Kannadiga. The people wanted the name changed for a long time, it was Bengaluru for them since quite some time. But I wasn’t here then. What I see now, whether it’s a cosmopolitan … Continue reading Bangalore or Bengaluru
In these one and a half years in Bangalore I experienced one of the most exotic experiences of my entire life, when I attended the Bangalore literature festival. I conveniently missed the inauguration. I planned to attend the sessions … Continue reading The Bangalore literature festival
Word of the Week is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to learn new words every week. To participate just make a post with your word and leave the link as a comment to Heena’s WOW post. Funambulist /noun/ fyoo-nam-byuh-list / An acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope Synonyms tightrope walker Origin Late 18th century: from French funambule orLatin funambulus (from funis ‘rope’ + ambulare‘to walk’) + -ist. Example sentences 1. She works as a Funambulist in the local circus troop For more new words check out Heena’s page Word Treasure Continue reading Word of the Week (WOW) 6th December, 2015