Q"The Ground Beneath Her Feet" is a Salman Rushdie novel that begins in Bombay and moves on to the US via England. Two of the central characters, Vina Apsara and Umeed, speak in a quaint argot which they call "HUG-ME", for it compensated their lack of proficiency of any single language. What was it an acronym for?
A:Hindi-Urdu-Gujarati-Marathi-English.
Q:"Its length is 96 times the breadth of the four fingers of a man, which is believed to be his height. Each of the four fingers represents one ...
Published on July 28, 2010 05:58