August 2025
“Language is not only a social system of verbal icons, arbitrarily assembled through ages, it is also a ‘means’ of carrying forward the cumulative human experience of millennia to the future generations. When language trajectories are snapped, the accumulated wisdom in those languages too gets submerged and continues to survive in severely truncated, irreparable, and insensible forms.”Among the finest books I have read this year thus far. The foremost linguist of India has brought out a publication that leaves you breathtaking in place due to the vast expanse of historical and social…