We were talk­ing last evening about how your mother tongue influ­ences how you speak Eng­lish, when we came upon another inter­est­ing ques­tion: What is your mother tongue and how would you deter­mine it? Is it: 1) The lan­guage your mother speaks 2) The lan­guage you speak with your mother (and what if you speak two languages?) […]

And so we come to the end of our short but enjoy­able trip in Ker­ala. We started from Kumily early morn­ing yes­ter­day and after a nice drive through tea, spice and rub­ber plan­ta­tions and Kal Ho Na Ho music (again!), we arrived in Cochin at 1 pm. Spent a pleas­ant after­noon roam­ing around the Fort Kochi […]