Abhishek Avtans
Abhishek Avtans teaches Indic languages and linguistics at Leiden University (the Netherlands). He tweets at @avtansa.
Shaking the melting pot
The role of contact languages in multilingual milieux.
Aug 24, 2021
It takes a village to save a language
Pidgins, creoles and mixed languages of Southasia.
Jul 13, 2021
Under the sun
Summer words and phrases in Southasian languages.
May 18, 2021
Translating a pandemic
The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.
Apr 07, 2021
Latest Articles
Swear not by the moon
The contentious politics of lunar sighting in Pakistan.
The storyteller of Kovilpatti
On Ki Rajanarayanan, the father of Karisal literature.
Southasia’s COP26, Bhutan’s political prisoners, the politics of listening and more.
Southasiasphere episode 13: Updates and analysis from around the region.
Against forgetting. Against erasure.
On meaning, storytelling, and memory-making in Kashmir.
