Columns and articles in Magazines and Newspapers
(2025, November 25), How caste pervades Southasian languages: Caste-based dialects – or castelects – and the social hierarchy of languages across Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Tulu
https://www.himalmag.com/politics/language-caste-india-hindi-tamil-kannada
(2025, July 4 ), Languages and labour on tea estates in South India and Sri Lanka: Part 2
How colonial-era tea cultivation drove migration and shaped the languages and lived experiences of estate workers in Southasia
https://www.himalmag.com/culture/south-india-sri-lanka-tea-estate-languages
(2025, June 7 ), Who’s afraid of Mysore Pak? The bitter taste of India’s language wars.
(2025, January 20), The languages of tea-estate workers in Southasia: Part 1. Himal Southasian.
https://www.himalmag.com/culture/india-tea-estate-workers
(2023, July 3). Languages of the islanders in Southasia: Part 2. Himal Southasian.
https://www.himalmag.com/language-diversity-islands-maldives-srilanka-bangladesh/
(2023, April 14). Languages of the islanders in Southasia: Part 1. Himal Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/languages-of-islanders-in-southasia-andaman-and-nicobar/
(2023, January 31). 300 sāl pahle ek videśī ne likhā hindī kā vyākraṇ. Navbharat Times (NBT) (Delhi, Hindi
language newspaper). (on earliest grammar of Hindi written by Joan Josua Ketelaar)
(2022, December 24). What was Pāṇini’s ancient algorithm in verse? Abhishek Avtans explains. Hindustan
Times (Delhi, India).
Published in printed format
in all editions of Hindustan times (25 December 2022). Archive.
(2022, November 22). Beyond the binary: Gender in Southasian languages. Himal Southasian.
https://www.himalmag.com/dialectical-beyond-the-binary-language-gender-2022/
(2022, July 6). The Holy Grail of Language Preservation: Bible Translations in Southasia. Himal
Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/under-the-sun-language-southasia-dialectical-2021/
https://archive.org/details/delhi-hindustan-times-26-6-2022/page/n15/mode/2up
(2022, June 25). Laughing in an ancient language: Humour, satire, sarcasm in Sanskrit verse. Hindustan
Times. https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/laughing-in-an-ancient-language-humour-satire-sarcasm-in-sanskrit-verse-101656152437086.html
Published in printed format
in all editions of Hindustan times (26 June 2022). Archive.
https://archive.org/details/delhi-hindustan-times-26-6-2022/page/n15/mode/2up
(2022, May 14). Ṭallī, kuṛī, baniyān: The intriguing story of where our words come from. Hindustan
Times. https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/all-ku-baniy-n-the-intriguing-story-of-where-our-words-come-from-101652519961028.html
Published in printed format in all editions of Hindustan times (15 May 2022).
Archive
https://archive.org/details/delhi-ht-15-5-2022/page/n15/mode/2up
(2022, March 04). Seeing with fingertips. Himal Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/seeing-with-fingertips-braille-southasia-dialectical-2022/
(2022, Jan 1). Apabhraṃśa. High Theory Podcast. https://hightheory.net/2022/01/01/apabhra%e1%b9%83sa/
(2021, Nov 8). Sign Languages Matter. Himal Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/sign-languages-matter-dialectical-2021/
(2021, August 24). Shaking the melting pot. Himal Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/shaking-the-melting-pot-dialectical-2021/
(2021, July 13). It takes a village to save a language. Himal Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/pidgins-creoles-mixed-languages-southasia-dialectical-2021/
(2021, June 9). Under the sun. Himal Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/under-the-sun-language-southasia-dialectical-2021/
(2021, April 22). Translating a pandemic. Himal Southasian. https://www.himalmag.com/dialectical-southasia-in-languages-2021/
(2020, August 13). purānē bhārat kā nēvigēśan sisṭam thā vah, NavbharatGold. https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/navbharatgold/we-the-people/a-tale-of-palanquin-bearers-and-their-code-language/story/77502597.cms
(2020, May 24). The story of Gora greed and a national nashā | SAMAA TV. https://www.samaa.tv/culture/2020/05/pakistan-india-history-tea-british-subcontinent-south-asia/
(2020, May 9). From Shikarpur to Caribbean Islands, the story of Sindhi businessmen | SAMAA TV. https://www.samaa.tv/culture/2020/05/from-shikarpur-to-caribbean-islands-the-story-of-sindhi-businessmen/
Interviews in Newspapers and Periodicals; Invited online lectures and podcasts:
(2024, August 16) Crossover episode: 10 Indian languages and how they evolved. Sukanya Datta. Hindustan Times, National Edition (India).
(2024, 8 March). Significance of language documentation: methods, tools and experiences [Nalanda Symposium, Digital Nalanda]
(2023, 17 June). Indian languages are inherently concerned about the environment, says linguist Abhishek Avtans [Interview – on climate change and Indian languages: Hindustan Times, national edition, India]
(2022, November 06). Artsen opleiden in het Hindi leidt tot ‘chaos’ in een
land met honderden talen : Lisa Dupuy. NRC (The Netherlands, Dutch language newspaper).
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/06/artsenopleiding-in-hindi-wekt-wrevel-in-veeltalig-land-a4147434
(2022, October 29). Meet the American author coining new English words for complicated feelings : Anesha George. Hindustan Times (Mumbai, India).
Web Archive:
(2022, June 25). When Sanskrit Makes you laugh. (Hindustan Times, New Delhi)
(2020, September 3). Hindi-Urdu Itihas aur Rajnitikaran: Puliyabaazi (IVM Podacasts)
https://youtu.be/9kNXfU3rJDE
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