How often do you speak in your mother tongue? Updated
Poelano Malema
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21 February marks International Mother Language Day and
highlights the importance of preserving culture through speaking one’s mother tongue.
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According to ethnologue.com, there are more than 7,000 spoken languages in the world. South Africa alone is blessed with eleven official languages. They are Sepedi (also known as Sesotho sa Leboa), Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, and isiZulu.
Sadly, as more people become bilingual and seek to learn a more prestigious language to gain social and economic advantages or to avoid discrimination, they can lose their own languages.
The great Indian OTT makeover
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February 21, 2021 06:57 IST
With regional platforms, original shows, better subtitles, and an audience base that’s spilling outside metros and across borders, streaming is growing up in the country
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Stills from ‘Master’, ‘Drishyam 2’, and ‘Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal’
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With regional platforms, original shows, better subtitles, and an audience base that’s spilling outside metros and across borders, streaming is growing up in the country
Last month,
Master, the Tamil behemoth starring Vijay Setupathi and Thalapathy Vijay, ended the dry spell at local cinemas, opening to houseful shows and taking back an impressive ₹50 crore on the first day. What went contrary to the usual script, however, was that it headed to Amazon Prime Video just two weeks later. “I think
Two Dogs Fighing: Man Chasing Dog (1939-42) Image courtesy Christie's.
“Outsider art” may not always be easy to define, but demand has never been broader or more intense, according to Christie’s specialist Cara Zimmerman.
Featuring 90 lots, yesterday’s online “Outsider and Vernacular Art” sale pulled in just over $2 million. That total cleared the $1.57 million presale high estimate, with a strong sell-through rate of 97 percent sold by lot and 99 percent sold by value. The auction included selections from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, sold to benefit both the Foundation and the Harlem Children’s Zone.
The total is down from a larger sale of 128 lots last year that pulled in $3.3 million that had an identical 99 percent sell through rate.