Portuguese

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Neha Desai
In this interview, he presents a representative opinion of the Korlai villagers about their language, why they think it is necessary to preserve it and their worries about the increasing influence of other languages due to TV and mobile phones. It provides a new perspective regarding the values…
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Neha Desai
Language is a living system, continually changing and evolving. As much as the existence of the language is based on the people who speak it, the existence and worldview of people is also dependent on the language they speak. When people migrate from rural areas to cities, not only do the numerous…
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Neha Desai
Languages are living systems that undergo constant processes of structural and semantic changes. One such way in which languages change is through contact with other languages. When people speaking one language come in contact with another dominant language and start using it for various purposes,…
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Deepashree Dutta
Dr Pius Malekandathil is a historian and professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The focus of his work is the maritime history of the Indian Ocean, with an emphasis on Portuguese history. He has authored numerous books and articles, including The Indian…
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Deepashree Dutta
‘Playful are these boats of the pirates/harmads, they marched, keeping time as it were, with the motion of the waves! Like the vultures that hovered the sea, they marched flapping their wings of sail.’[1] The above lines are from the ballad of Nuranneha and the Grave, believed to have been composed…
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Deepashree Dutta
The Portuguese arrived in India in 1498. From the early sixteenth century they began to gradually trickle into Bengal. However, in contrast to the western coast, Portuguese presence in the coast of Bengal was primarily characterised by private initiatives, giving the settlement a unique nature. The…
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Bony Thomas
Ponjikkara is a thickly populated island, about 6.5 sq. km in area, situated between the city of Kochi (Cochin) and Cochin Port on Vembanad Lake (alias Ernakulam Lake), where Periyar—the longest river in the southern state of Kerala—merges with the Arabian Sea. Until about a decade and a half ago,…
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Barnett Varghese
Cirlot, J.E. A Dictionary of Symbols. Translated by Jack Sage. London: Routledge, 1971.   Collins, Paul M. Christian Inculturation in India. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.   Henderson, Joseph L., Jolande Jacobi, Aniela Jaffe and Carl G. Jung, and Marie-Louise von Franz, eds. Man and his Symbols. Norwell…
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