Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

At every temple in South India, the aarti for the deity is performed by burning a piece of camphor on a platter. Who knew ...

I can see how different grunts could come to mean “bear”, “deer” or “run”. But how do grammatically complex languages get their cases and declensions? (continued) ...

Mr. Seeman has selectively resurrected Periyar’s long-forgotten comments against Tamil language ... Tamil nationalists seeking to replace the Dravidian movement have begun to blame Periyar ...

In the minds of Mr. Stalin and others, the script most likely has Tamil roots. (Tamil, a Dravidian language, is another classical language of India.) That, in turn, would cement the Dravidian ...

Much of these roots have been traced back to Old Tamil,” she explained. OUP’s connection to Dravidian languages dates back to the 1960s when Thomas Burrow and Murray B Emeneau published the ...

Chief Minister M K Stalin said that it was Dravidam (Dravidian) that christened the motherland as Tamil Nadu, earned reservation for various marginalized communities, fought for women’s rights ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom ... Mothers' Language Choices ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

More than 20,000 students who had exemptions from studying Irish at second level on the grounds of having a learning disability were studying other languages such as French, German and Spanish ...