I was listening to Sid Sriram’s rendition of the Hanuman Chalisa on YouTube. It’s a nice one. Go listen to
Questions about Hanuman Chalisa: A little experiment in AI-assisted curiosity Read Post »
Started off listening Sid Sriram’s Hanuman Chalisa on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HywkwkCLN4k?si=IvyJNsGKuYBW4jUz (https://youtu.be/HywkwkCLN4k?si=IvyJNsGKuYBW4jUz). I wanted to know more about it and asked
What Gemini told me about the Hanuman Chalisa Read Post »
Why do so many Indian languages say “this” and “that” with words that sound almost the same? Tamil has “inga”
All about this and that Read Post »
Every time I try to excavate my childhood memories, especially through a cultural lens, I return to one recurring personal
How culture shapes our definition of trauma Read Post »
I’m reading Kalki Selected Short Stories, translated from Tamil by Gowri Ramnarayan. Highly recommend. The collection is full of period
When your playlist gives you away: Kalki’s 1930s/40s Tamil-style mood coding Read Post »
Of late, I’ve been hearing MS Subbulakshmi’s Venkateswara Suprabhatam every morning. After a few days, I started catching the small
A simple guide to the Venkateswara Suprabhatam “playlist” Read Post »
Tamil’s diglossia is so extreme that native speakers end up learning their own language in school the way others learn
I grew up speaking Tamil, yet to this day I can’t make head or tail of the Tamil news on
Why does the Tamil News feel like a foreign film without subtitles (to me)? Read Post »
We spent years accusing Hindi movies of copying Hollywood—everything from Anu Malik’s musical inspirations to entire plotlines being imported wholesale
