On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:35 +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > speaking of gujarati... perhaps it's due to my limited exposure to that > language, but whenever i think of it i remember the passages in > _midnight's children_ [1] where the bombay language riots are supposedly > caused by marching gujaratis bumping into marching marathis as the > narrator looks on, the latter shouting a supposed parody of the gujarati > language: "su chhey saru chhey danda leykey maru chhey".
oops sorry, the narrator doesn't look on... typically of the whole plot of the book, he supposedly caused the riots and the resulting separation of the bombay state into maharashtra and gujarat by teaching marathi activists that chant...
