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Enjoyed this exposition. The sentences in bold distract and break the flow of my reading. Your writing is lucid, and flows well, and I do not see the need for those sentences to be in bold to highlight them as they already stand out.

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Oct 4, 2021Liked by Pallavi Aiyar

Wow! I remember reading on your blog about the mysterious origins of 'brinjal' in Hinglish (or perhaps FB). Mayhap it comes from Spanish!!

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Oct 5, 2021Liked by Pallavi Aiyar

How did the Ramayana and Mahabharata become so popular in Indonesia? Is it because of the Chola influence?

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Pao is Bread in Brazil and in many parts of India

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