Showing posts with label Words and life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Words and life. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Who is a wise person? and curious science of detecting lies

Few days ago one of the readers of this blog wrote to me that “you read lot of different and varied things”. This is true but that does not mean I could boast of being knowledgeable in many areas, on the contrary, the more you read about the various things and find that so many different aspects of physical and social phenomena are studied by scholars, the more you realise how much you don’t know. For me reading has simply ensured that I don’t lose the humility. So in all humility let me start with a story that is attributed to Socrates. Once he was asked to define wisdom. The following remarkable response that I have shared earlier with many of my students, but at the risk of repeating for some of them here, is put below. The Socratic view on wise person goes something like this:

A person who does not know and does not know that s/he does not know is ignorant
A person who does not know but thinks that s/he knows is fool
A person who does not know and knows that s/he does not know is wise

Professor Richard Wiseman (the surname is real) is the only professor of promoting Public Uderstanding of Psychology at a university in England, UK. He is Quirkologist. ‘Quirk’ means peculiar or strange and logy is a Greek suffix found in hundreds of words in English and means ‘study of’ something. For instance psych-ology is study of mind or etym-ology is study of origin of words. So quirk-ology is study of strange or quirky things. For instance, how or why people smile, study of people telling lies. Professor Wiseman has written a book entitled Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives. I got this book as summer reading for my son but when it arrived in the post I started reading it with great interest.. One of the studies Wiseman conducted involved national survey on people telling lies. A large number of people participated in the survey that was run in collaboration with a British daily. Only 8% of the people said they had never lied meaning 92% of us tell lies at one or other time in our life. He also reports from other studies that 80% of respondents said that they had lied to get a job, 60% of the people have cheated on their partners at least once..hmm. Mercifully 4 out of 5 lies remain undetected. What will happen to the number of divorces if all cheaters on their partners were found! A quirky question for Professor Wiseman could be, to what extent is the institution of marriage dependent on our inability to detect lies.
Talking of detecting lies Prof. Wiseman reports his work on how to differentiate between an artificial and real smile. If you want to try and see if you can differentiate a real smile from an artificial one go to the link provided below. Meanwhile let me leave you with a simple philosophical statement that has puzzled quite a few wise people thus far:

When someone makes the following statement, is s/he telling truth?

‘I am telling truth that I always tell lies.’

Link to Prof. Wiseman’s experiments and other material on Quirkology
http://www.quirkology.com/UK/Experiment_lying.shtml

Monday, 13 April 2009

Intoxication to assassination!

These days the word assassin is used for a killer, particularly if the person killed is an important person in society or major political leader. But the history of the word assassin takes us back nearly 1000 years to conflicts between middle eastern Muslims and Christians from European. As is known the Christian holy land is part of present day Israel and Palestine area. The Christians from around the world including Europeans would visit the Holy Land for purpose of pilgrimage. However, from early 11th century AD trouble started with Christians finding it difficult to visit their Holy Land. What followed was a series of confrontations between the Christians inspired by the Pope Urban II and supported by many European kings and knights leading their armies to conquer the areas from Muslims in Egypt and Palestine. It is argued that these attacks by Christians were partly religious and partly driven by search for conquests over different lands and the wealth that it would have brought. These expeditions are known as Christian Crusades that lasted for almost two hundred years. Obviously the Muslims were not sitting quiet, they fought back too. The Islamic fighters who killed the Christians in response gave the word assassin. These fighters had religious rationale to fight Christian crusaders. Many of these fighters would consume hashish before they went into fighting, mostly as secret attacks. Hashish is a cannibus drug that temporarily gives euphoric feeling and causes intoxication. The drug is illegal in most countries now. These hashish using Muslim fighters came to be known as hashishin a word that travelling through Italian and French languages has found its place in English as assassin! In 17th century it meant Muslim assassin but now it is used for any killer.

Note: I am neither an authority on religion nor on history so take the above write up as simple historical note to understand the meaning and history of the word assassin. The use of any drugs like hashish is harmful and illegal in most countries in the world today.

Sunday, 29 March 2009

Foolish ‘nice’ and Sub-prime Monarchs!

I would be very happy if you said after reading this article that it is a ‘nice’ article as it would mean a compliment. But if I wrote some article few centuries ago and you said it’s a ‘nice’ article, it would be not be compliment; it would be an insult to me! Why?

Well few centuries ago, ‘nice’ did not mean ‘nice’ or good but it meant ‘foolish’ or ‘ignorant’! Surprised. Don’t be. Look carefully at the word ‘nice’. The word comes from Latin word nescius. Travelling through the old French nescius reached English and ended up as nice. Nescius is derived from nescre which means to be ignorant. In root of nescius is scire that means ‘to know’ and gives us so many words related to knowledge such as science, omniscient (all knowing), conscience, conscious and prescient. However, over centuries the meaning and the form of nescience has changed from foolish or ignorant to nice. But nescient is still usable adjective which means ignorant. Isn’t this a ‘nice’ story about journey of word ‘nice’? Bye the way there is also a nice town called Nice in southeast France! Let’s move from Nice to Venice and Florence in Italy the hotbed of commerce and banking in middle ages.

Venicians and Florentians contributed a lot to modern banking development. The word bank comes from banca meaning a bench on which the money lenders and exchangers sat and did the lending, borrowing and guaranteeing payments for facilitating trade. However, if a banker incurred losses and was unable to honour the agreements, he would be taken out of the business and his bank (bench) would be literally broken. Latin word rupta means broken. Combine bench+rupta and you get bankrupt that we use today to describe a business enterprise or individuals who have more to pay than what they own.

Everyone reading this, I am sure by now knows that some American and European banks collapsed in 2007-08 after their borrowers, particularly the US house-owners failed to pay their housing loan instalments. These banks went bankrupt or were taken over by the governments with tax payers’ money. In this case the cause of bankruptcy of some of the banks was poor business judgement and or greed to make quick money. But in the middle ages (roughly 5th century to 16th century AD) the biggest risk of bankruptcy for European banks came from the kings and the queens. The monarchs used to borrow very heavily from banks to finance the innumerable wars which went on. Some monarchs paid as high as 45% interest rate. However, if the monarchs could not return the loan, the bankers could not do much, they simply went bankrupt. Lending to monarchs was as big a gamble (or unavoidable risk if they were forced to lend) by those middle ages’ banks as some of the contemporary banks took by lending to poor quality borrowers in the US housing markets. Many monarchs of middle ages in Europe and the humble households of the present day US thus share a poor creditworthiness, an equality not very welcome. Sub-prime loans are not new!

Friday, 13 February 2009

Three reasons to learn your language

If Hindi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Russian, German, Arabic, English indeed whatever is your mother tongue, mother language or home language, please read on. I put before you three reasons for speaking and learning your own language that you should consider before forming any quick judgement based on the title only. Through out the following I’ll be using condition of Sindhi language in India as an illustration but I am sure in most places you could replace that with name of your language and the arguments will still make sense. But before I do that I call for your patience to read about some events that took place 57 years ago in what was at that time East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

February 21st is a special day, not because it is exactly one week after Valentine day, but because it is celebrated as International Mother Language Day (IMLD)! If you knew great! if not, you know it now. Why would United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organisation (UNESCO) deem it appropriate at turn of the second millennium AD to declare a day to celebrate importance and recognition of mother language? Bit of search and lot of curiosity led me to finding a gripping story of struggle and sacrifice to sustain one’s mother tongue. The events leading to IMLD were intimately related to a major unfortunate event of 20th century, namely partition of India.

Division of India was a hurriedly carried out exercise. The demarcation of lines between India and the new nation of Pakistan was such that Pakistan was born on two sides, eastern and western, of India! Pakistan on east of India was East Pakistan carved out of Bengal and on north western side it comprised large parts Punjab, North West Frontier and so on. While the Pakistani people in East Pakistan shared the religion, Islam, with majority of Pakistanis on western side, they did not share the same language. East Pakistani (now Bangladeshis) have had a rich tradition of literature and a great language just as the people speaking Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pushto and other languages in Pakistan on its western side have had. Soon after the independence Pakistan government decided to have Urdu as the only official language for Pakistan. Bengali speaking people in East Pakistan started resistance to this decision and launched agitations. On 21st February 1952 the Bengali Language Movement in East Pakistan led to unrest in Dhaka and in police firing many students lost their life fighting for recognition of Bengali as one of the official languages of Pakistan. Subsequently in 1956 Bengali was recognised as one of the official languages in Pakistan. A beautiful monument, Shaheed Minar, commemorating the student sacrifices for their mother tongue was built very soon and is still located on the campus of Dhaka university. Till today 21st February is celebrated as Bengali Language Movement day in Bangladesh and is a public holiday in Bangladesh. In 1999 the United Nations, based on proposals from Bangladesh and some other language lovers declared 21st February as International Mother Language Day. So hopefully after reading this story you are ready to read further few other reasons that I put before you to consider why one must learn and speak one’s mother language.

First reason: Is functional utility only purpose of language promotion?

I frequently get asked this question while talking to young Sindhis in urban India or abroad. What is the use of learning Sindhi language? It is of no use in business and profession, it does not help in education as English dominates school and higher education therefore, there is no need to learn Sindhi. Let’s deal with this functional (utilitarian) argument for not learning which also leads to my first reason for learning Sindhi. Clearly it is possible that your mother language may not be one of the main international languages such as English, French, Spanish and other internationally dominant in the world of commerce and professions and neither might it be medium of instruction at higher education level. If it is so, what is the point in learning it. I will call this ‘functional' utility argument. Many world languages be it several regional languages in India, China, wherever, face this challenge, although some more severally such as Sindhi in India than others.

But now let’s extend this functional utility argument to other walks of life. Let’s take architecture. What is the functional utility of having great architecture in the present times? Imagine someone could argue that Taj Mahal in Agra or Egyptian Pyramids or Stonehenge in Scotland or Eiffel Tower in Paris have no functional utility and hence suggest that they be demolished to construct houses or offices on those spots. Most sane people will disagree with such an argument and put forward the case for preserving ancient architecture as these represent some of the finest achievements of human endeavours (and also pains in many cases, which is not justifiable I must say). That’s why so many of these places are declared as World Heritage sites. There are many other arts and crafts which may not have so called ‘functional’ value in our day to day living but we would still support the idea of preserving them. Actually many of such arts might have served some purpose at some place at some time.

So what’s different when we consider a language? Is it because it is intangible compared to a physical structure? As a matter of fact evolution of a full fledged language is far more complex, intelligent process than construction of a monument is. The refinement and development in linguistic feature such as vocabulary, cultural nuances of language use, grammar spans many generations. Yes language is intangible and but is not ‘invisible’ one can read, write, hear and speak it which involves three senses rather than just eyes. A particular language may not possess the same functional utility in time and space but its importance is high if not more than say that of ancient architecture heritage sites as preserver of the human accomplishments. Language enabled transmission and storage of knowledge that facilitated the growth of civilisations.

Actually if functional argument were extended to extreme, one could argue for benefits of having only language world wide. But this is a dangerous idea. This is why. Human progress requires diversity in thinking. Different people, different societies, different cultures when co-exist in peaceful manner produce far more and solve more problems than uniform cultures, homogenous views would do. There are plenty of examples in human history to show what such one track thinking can do in any walk of life be it politics, economics, religion, science or culture. Different languages represent different cultures, different dialogues, different interpretations and different systems of knowledge. Hence languages are precious for the progress of human civilisation. I am sure many languages would meet this criterion and therefore, using narrow ‘functional’ view on language with reference to career and commercial relevance does not seem a rational choice for intelligent people. That’s my first reason why one should learn one’s language even though it may not have in current socio-economic conditions so called ‘functional’ value.

Second reason: Language enriches human living

My second reason for learning one’s language is to get a flavour of its richness. Languages are not just medium of communication but they embody human experience and create human experience. The words have impact on how we feel as anyone who has been verbal abused or verbally praised would know. This short article is not suitable for describing its richness but having read some of the great poems and, knowing the versatile and the rich repertoire of words in Sindhi language I can only say its richness can be tasted only when we speak or read it.

I am sure most languages have same level of richness and there are quite a few languages in the world. Let me try to tickle your imagination with few facts. There are nearly 7000 languages in the world with known speakers of which 428 are spoken in India, 18 in the UK and 72 in Pakistan. 516 of the total known languages are endangered. Sindhi is spoken by more than 50 million people[1] which makes it 22nd ranked most popular language in the world according to estimates by Ethnologue[2]. You may like to check where your language stands before it becomes endangered!

According to Nancy Dorian there are three symptoms of death of language: fewer speakers, fewer domains of use, and structural simplification.[3] For example, while there are many speakers of Sindhi, its domains of usage have shrunk seriously because of non-Sindhi medium of education and migration of (mostly Hindu) Sindhis from Sindh and getting dispersed all over India and rest of the globe. An important domain of the use of language is home and the other being social-cultural domain. Sindhi like many other languages is also facing the challenge of so called of modernity where western culture and western languages, particularly that posed by English in India. It does not befit the intelligence of Sindhis to deprive themselves and their future generations of the privilege of knowing one more language. It is also not responsible of them to run the risk of Sindhi becoming gradually an endangered language. This also applies to other linguistic communities in the world.

Third reason: Mother language helps your development too!

My third reason for learning one’s language is based on the argument the evidence that learning one’s mother tongue along with other languages has several advantages. Here are some listed by Jim Cummins of University of Toronto:[4]

Bilingualism has positive effects on children's linguistic and educational development: More than 150 research studies conducted during the past 35 years strongly support what Goethe, the German philosopher, once said: The person who knows only one language does not truly know that language. The research suggests that bilingual children may also develop more flexibility in their thinking as a result of processing information through two different languages.

The level of development of children's mother tongue is a strong predictor of their second language development: When parents and other caregivers (e.g. grandparents) are able to spend time with their children and tell stories or discuss issues with them in a way that develops their mother tongue vocabulary and concepts, children come to school well-prepared to learn the school language and succeed educationally.

Children's cultural and linguistic experience in the home is the foundation of their future learning and we must build on that foundation rather than undermine it
. (Source: Cummins[5])

So the third argument is that knowing one’s language along with other languages is not going to be a disadvantage for you or your children. On the contrary it seems ‘profitable’, if I may use the term bit lightly knowing very well the enterprising spirit of Sindhis who are known to weigh the costs and benefits or everything!

Let’s conclude now. The aim of this write up has been to reason with the readers that it is worth and necessary to speak and learn one’s mother tongue illustrating with Sindhi language as I happen to be Sindhi and know that this language is struggling to survive in India as written and read language. It is argued that functional utility of a language should not be only criterion in accepting or rejecting one’s mother language. There is clearly a very rich body of literature, rich Sindhi culture embedded in Sindhi language which is part of finest traditions and human achievements for which, those who know the language, have responsibility to pass on to future generations. And finally it's argued that there is scientific evidence that bilingualism helps children do well in education also. I hope you are persuaded enough to make a start, even if it is small start tomorrow morning on breakfast table having cereal with milk. Here is the richness for you. There is a word ‘Shree’ Sindhi/Hindi/Sanskrit (after all they are sister languages!). The word Shree means good and also means goddess of prosperity and agriculture. Latin Ceres comes from ‘Shree[6] and Ceres in Latin means goddess of agriculture and food which is the root of word cornflakes Cereal that you enjoy in the morning. Although Shree looks very plausible derivation of could not verify this from Oxford Dictionary of Etymology. By the way UNESCO had declared 2008 as year of International Languages!

Notes:

[1]According Encarta, reported on Wikipedia, there were 54.3 million speakers of Sindhi in 2006. But I am not really sure about this number. It appears to be very large to me. Ethnologue website suggest that number of Sindhi speakers is 21.3 million. DK
[2] http://www.ethnologue.com/ is part of an international organisation that studies trends in languages.
[3] Dorian, Nancy C. 1980. Language shift in community and individual: The phenomenon of the laggard semi-speaker. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 25.85-94.
[4] For full article refer to http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/mother.htm
[5] From above quotation, accessed on 14th October 2008.
[6] Source: Bherumal M. Advani (1944, 2008) Qadeem Sindh, National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language, New Delhi.

Friday, 6 February 2009

Why do I like the word algebra?

Some hate it, some love it and some just do it because they have to as part of studies or jobs. I am talking about mathematics and in particular algebra. I am not great at algebra but I like the word algebra a lot. It is a mathematical term as we all know but actually if you dig deeper into it you find it brings together two cultures from Asia and one from Europe. The period between 7-8 century AD to about 16th century AD is sometimes called period of Islamic scientific revolution as many Islamic scholars in middle east were discovering new things in science and technology during this period. One of these scholars was Muhammad Ibn al-Khwarizmi who was Persian scholar working on mathematics, astronomy and geography. He lived during 780 to 850 AD and wrote books on geography, astronomy and various branches of maths.

He was perhaps the first one to put forward idea of systematic procedures to solve the mathematical problems such as quadratic equations. He wrote a book called Al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”). Now those who understand Urdu or Hindi would recognize the words in the title. Kitab = book, mukhtasar = short , hisab = calculation, jabr = force (multiplication) and muqabala = balance. This is where the word al-gebra comes from. Its journey to present day English was routed through Latin like for most of Arabic or Sanskrit origin words found in English. The above book was translated in 1145 AD in Latin as Liber algebrae et almucabala. In this title notice the al-jabr changing to algebrae and from there to algebra seems a short journey of dropping ‘e’ from the Latin term algebrae. Actually it was through translation of this book that notions of zero and decimal places were introduced to Europeans who at that time were using Roman numerals I, V, X,L, D,C M,V. Imagine solving 369 x 24 using Roman number (CCCLXIX x XXIV)! Al-Khwarizmi himself got the concept of zero from his studies of Indian mathematics. When he wrote his books on mathematics and astronomy great deal of scientific development was going in India also. One of his books Kitāb al-Jamʿ wa-l-tafrīq bi-ḥisāb al-Hind (The Book of Addition and Subtraction According to the Hindu Calculation) shows his awareness and understanding of the Indian mathematical knowledge which was quite advanced by 7th century AD. During those years there was extensive exchange of knowledge and scientific literature between scholars from India, China and Middle-east. Much of the knowledge about advancements in sciences in India reached European scholars through Arabic translations and interpretations by the Arab scholars.

Al-Khwarizmi’s name has provided an English word changing first into Algoritimi in Latin before getting the shape as we now know algorithm. Yes, that algorithm which today means systematic breaking down of a problem or a situation in step wise manner and then trying to solve it. A technique used by most of us from high school children for solving mathematical problems to computer programmers to military strategist to management experts. Most visible form of algorithm is flow chart or pathway analysis. All courtesy 8th century great scientist Al-Khwarizmi whose approach to problem diagnosis and solution remains pervasive in different forms of algorithm.

Let me get back to algebra! Now let’s go eastward for interpretation of al-jabr. The term jabra is used till today in Urdu and Hindi as meaning force as root in different words. Jabardasti (or zabardasti) meaning forcefully, majboor (helpless or slave i.e, without any force or power and also there at least two Hindi movies by the name majboor), in Gujarati I have heard jabro (one who is powerful or someone like bully) and of course there is a saying in Hindi aadat se majboor (helpless due to habit or habits die hard!).

So there we have fascinating word ‘algebra’, do you still hate it?

Words and life- Juggernaut 2

If curious among you have already read etymology (etymology means study of origin of words) of juggernaut, excellent! If not here we go.

As already said in earlier posting, the word juggernaut is derived from Jagannath. Every year in month of Ashad Indian lunar month (sometime in June-July months) a huge religious procession is taken out with statues of Lord Krishna, his brother Balaram and their sister Subhadra placed in the huge chariots nearly 14 meters tall. The journey from Jagannath temple through the city of Puri moves very slowly as hundreds of thousands of devotees of Lord Jagannath congregate to worship and touch the chariots. In some earlier dictionaries on mythologies it was said that worshippers threw themselves in front of chariots to be sacrificed and thereby creating the image of unstoppable crushing. But I think it was and is an exaggeration perhaps based on the accidents and loss of life that may occur when so many people get together (if you have forgotten remember in September 2008 more than 150 people died in a stampede at a temple in Jodhpur, Rajasthan). One of the violent computer games is called juggernaut!

Words and life- Juggernaut 1

I have always liked to explore words and their meanings. When I was in standard 7 or 8 I bought my first dictionary, it was English to Sindhi. Yes, I did my school education in Sindhi medium which has meant that I can read and write in Arabic script too. Perhaps you may know that Sindhi language has 52 alphabets. Sindhi Language is quite close to Sanskrit and Ancient Sanskrit. I will talk about Sindhi language some other time but now let me turn back to words.

Juggernaut is a word in English which means a powerful force that is unstoppable. It could be said that in business a particular company, say Microsoft in software or Google in internet business are like juggernauts. But do you know what this English word's orgin is? Well it is derived from the name of Lord Krishna, yes, one of the many names of Lord Krishna is Jagannath. Lord Jagannath of Puri city in eastern state of Orissa is famous among Hindus and Jagannath Yatra (a religious procession) is an spectacular occassion and juggernaut is related to this procession. In the next posting more will be explained about how the word Jagannath term travelled from eastern India to modern day English in the following posting. Till that time happy reading whatever else you are reading. Check this out in a week's time.
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Thursday, 5 February 2009

शब्द और ज़िन्दगी - जगन्नाथ २

अगर आप में से जो ज्याद उत्सक juggernaut शब्द की 'उत्पति' खोजते हुए पड़ चुके हैं तो बहुत बधाई, अगर नहीं तो चलो अब पड़ते हैं!


भारत के पूर्वी प्रान्त उड़ीसा के पुरी शहर में हर साल आषढ माह में भगवान् जगन्नाथ की रथ यात्रा निकलती है इस यात्रा में भगवान् जगन्नाथ एवं उनके भाई बलराम और बहन सुबधरा के रथ संवारे जाते हैं और एक यात्रा निकलती है। ये रथ बहुत विशाल होते हैं जिनकी ऊंचाई १४ मीटर तक होती है कई साल पहले तो एसा भी प्रचलित हुआ के जगन्नाथ की यात्रा में लोग जान बूज कर आत्म हत्या करने होते रथ के नीचे गिरते थे लेकिन मेरा यह मानना है के ये सिर्फ़ बढावा है। हकीकत यह है की भारत और विदेश से लाखो श्रदालु और पर्यटक इस यात्रा में शामिल होने के लिए पुरी पहुँचते है जब इतनी बड़ी मात्रा में लोग एकत्रित होंगे तो स्वाभाविक है के भीड़भाड़ में कभीकभार लोगों को गंभीर चोटें भी लग सकती अगर व्यवस्था अच्छी नहीं हो तो इस की सम्भावना बढ़ जाती है जैसा के सेप्टेम्बर २००८ में जोधपुर शहर में एक मन्दिर में किसी त्यौहार पर एक दुर्घटना में १५० से अधिक लोगों की जान गई शायद इसी प्रकार के कभी किसी श्रदालु को चोट लगते देखकर पुरी की विशाल यात्रा को एक ज़बरदस्त रुकने वाले बल का चिह्न बनाते हुए अंग्रेज़ी में juggernaut शब्द की परिभाषा ऐसी हो गई

शब्द और ज़िन्दगी - जगन्नाथ १

मुझे हमेशा से ही शब्दों से बढ़ा लगाव रहा है। जब मैं ७वि या ८वि कक्षा में था तो पहेली बार इंग्लिश सिन्धी शब्दकोष ख़रीदा। मैंने हायर सेकँड़ैरी तक सिन्धी मध्यम से शिक्षा प्राप्त की। उसकी बदौलत आज में अरेबिक लिपि पढ़ लिख सकता हूँ। शायद आप को पता हो सिन्धी अल्फाबेट में ५२ अक्षर होते हैं! सिन्धी भाषा संस्कृत और आदि संस्कृत के बहुत नजदीक है। सिन्धी के बारे में फिर कभी बात करेंगे इस वक्त चलो वापिस शब्दों की तरफ़ मुढे॥

अंग्रेज़ी में एक शब्द है juggernaut जिसका अर्थ है कोई भारी भरकम ताकत से भरपूर चीज़ या जिसे रोका न जा सके ऐसा बलवान। जैसे बिज़नस में बोलते हैं यह कंपनी तो juggernaut की तरह बढ़ रही है। लेकिन आप को पता है इस अंग्रेज़ी शब्द का मूल क्या है? इसके मूल में है भगवान् कृष्ण का नाम जगन्नाथ! जी हाँ वाही भारत के उड़ीसा के पुरी शहर वाले भगवान् जगन्नाथ। अगले अंक में इस शब्द juggernaut की यात्रा को आगे बढ़ांऍगे और एक आधे और शब्द की बात करेंगे, तब तक के लिए खुश रहें और पढ़ते रहें।
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