Moving on from Blogger to Wordpress -

Moving To wordpress.


After many battles with blogger to get LaTex to work and installing and uninstalling JS and other stuff and with the annoyance of the new blogger editor and how it messes up multi-language posts, I have had it with blogger and have decided to move on.


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Shifting Tevaram Geographies

A poetic excursion in Tamizh into how the geographic cultural references to the Tevaram would change if set in North America. Patikam is a group of ten songs that appar, cuntarar and campantar usually composed at a pilgrimage spot on Siva.

The West Chester Tiruppatikam in Tamil 

Indic Unfunnies

There are plenty of subject jokes, funny oneliners in various other subject areas even Karnataka sangita.  Somehow the field of indology and indic studies has remained rather humorless. So here is a beginning:
More to come..

1.What is a naiyāyika's favorite Tamizh movie?   guṇā

2.What did śankara say to the abominable snowman?   Yeti Yeti
3.Why was the vyākaraṇa paṇdita never offered coffee. Because he declined it.
4. Why did the kāsmira śaiva love Halloween?  Because he could trika treat.
5.Who is an advaita vedantins least favorite poet? Maya Angelou

6.What did pāṇini do when the other grammarians asked too many questions?

He became a grilled panini

7.What do you call a tortilla chip that defies death? Nachoketas.

8.Which are the smallest set of sūtra-s. Jai'mini' Sūtra-s.

PaniniPress

Lunch time thoughts..