Character of the Year is Zeenat Aman, as the wildly improbable, Mallu-speaking Dr Babylona Menon, in Rajeev Nath’s Moksham. She’s descended from a Malayali grandfather and Spanish grandmother, and lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan, if you please. She asks someone in chaste Malayalish, "What is your belief about after death?"But then again, is that too much Malayalam, too little English? If you're looking for a true half-and-half, the correct word would be Mallish. Though it does suggest a Kerala massage, an extra whiff of coconut oil you may or may not count as a bonus.
(IFFI Diary by Meenakshi Shedde, Outlook, 18 Oct 2004)
Dmitry Oparin interviews Vasily Kharitonov for the Russia Program: Vasily
Kharitonov is a linguist at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian
Academy o...
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