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Two Americans in India Posted by Rachael on Dec 12, 2016
While talking to my mom on the phone the other day, she and I began reminiscing about our hilarious and, at times, perilous adventures in India. She came to visit me for two weeks in the Spring of 2013 while I was living in Jaipur studying Hindi. As an American, traveling to India for the…
An Homage to Mahadevi Varma Posted by Rachael on Nov 28, 2016
I had the good fortune to spend this past Thanksgiving week in one of the most beautiful parts (or the most beautiful part, in my opinion) of the United States: Vermont. Although I have visited Vermont several times before, I looked forward to this visit especially as it would be the first time I would…
A Fascination with Fairness Posted by Rachael on Nov 21, 2016
It wasn’t until I traveled to India for the first time that I fully realized how arbitrary beauty standards really are. While the United States was in the midst of a tanning craze, I discovered in Jaipur, Rajasthan (a state in the Northwestern part of India) that women (and men) were desperate to lighten their…
Save Grammar for a Rainy Day Posted by Rachael on Nov 15, 2016
Among some of my fondest memories of my stays in India are the “rainy days,” which would usually occur during the monsoon season (बरसात/barsaat, fem. noun). In North India, this season lasts from around June or July to September. But, it was not only during the monsoon season that rainy days would bless us with…
Special Part 4, Indians in America: Popular Literature Posted by Rachael on Oct 31, 2016
Since my last post on Indian Americans in popular T.V. and film, I’ve had a nagging feeling that we have some unfinished business regarding our three-part (now four-part 😉 theme: Indians in America. Of course, it’s impossible to cover all of the topics that could fall under this umbrella, but I wanted to address one…
Part 1, Indians in America: An Action-Packed Saga from 1635 to the Present Posted by Rachael on Oct 10, 2016
Welcome (आपका स्वागत है!/Aapka svaagat hai)! This is the first part of a three part series on Indians in America. I hope you enjoy this blog! (मुझे आशा है कि यह ब्लॉग आपको पसंद आयेगा!/Mujhe aasha hai ki yah blog aapko pasand aayega)! Immigration to the United States from what we now call the Republic…
Indeclinable Words Posted by Nitin Kumar on Apr 10, 2012
In Hindi, we know that there are words from nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs which decline with the gender, grammatic numbers and tense as per the context of a sentence. Such word are called विकारी शब्द (Vikaari Shabd). However, there also exist words which do not decline with gender, grammatic numbers and tense. These words…