Consonant Aspirations

Even though I am not in NE India at the moment, I still have a couple of things I have been meaning to post. Back in December, after the H...

A few weeks ago, I visited the Singapore Night Safari with a friend who was visiting from Australia. We spotted some mugs at the souvenir s...

I've been meaning to post this for a while now, since I saw this advertisement at my uncle's clinic here in Singapore. It's an...

[If you've come to this post because you're wondering if a particular language is 'futureless' or not, skip down right to t...

There's been quite a bit of internet buzz this past week about the work of Keith Chen, a behavioural economist at Yale. You can see his...

As I prepare to leave India again (this time to spend Christmas at home with the family for the first time in years), I thought I'd sha...

Two years ago I visited Khonoma village, which is about 2 hours from Kohima (depending on road conditions). Unfortunately, the day I visite...