My composition in Sanskrit for the 4th day of Navaratri, in praise of goddess Lakshmi, in the form of Kamala Devi! youtu.be/tuhYTTwsd6E?fe…

Dr. Nazir Shakir Brahui presented a novel derivation for the word aurat from Dravidian Yesterday at DLA. He proposed that the Proto-Dravidian term *oru-tti 'one woman,' evolved in Brahui as arutti/arvat, was likely adopted by other I-A languages as aurat. What's your take?

సిరివెన్నెల సంస్కృత తెలుగు కావ్యాలను క్షుణ్ణంగానే చదివాడని అనుకోవాలి. 'మునులకు తెలియని జపములు జరిపినదా ... ఎలా ఇంత పెన్నిధి వెదురు తాను పొందింది, వేణుమాధవా నీ సన్నిధి' అన్న భావాలకు సమాంతరమైన భావాలు సంస్కృతాంధ్ర భాగవతాలలో రాసక్రీడల ఘట్టంలో మనకు కనిపిస్తాయి. bsky.app/profile/suresh…

My updated overview on the Dravidian Languages just got published by Oxford Academic. In this intro I suggested two possible major waves of migrations of the Dravidian peoples into mainland India: 1st wave of ND/CD/SCDr ~3000BCE and SD-I as post-IVC. academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Suresh Kolichala thank you for the enhanced DEDR search. #TIL that one could do searches like kolichala.com/DEDR/search.ph… Pretty cool!

The spread of Dravidian languages may have been mainly associated with Iran_Herder like ancestry who were the 1st to domesticate goats & sheeps. Probably why Dravidian & Elamite share almost identical terms for them.Iranian Farmer ancestry on the other hand may have spoken a

Thank you Rtam卐 for validating some of the hypotheses I've been forming based on the linguistic data. Excellent work, and now we can see linguistics, genetics, and archaeology coming together to explain the origin of the Dravidian languages! Kudos!

நா. கணேசன் (Dr. N. Ganesan) European Journal of Human Genetics Suresh Kolichala Rtam卐 Ugra I have addressed some of the concerns raised by Suresh Kolichala in the relevant notes section of my blog popgenworld.blogspot.com/2025/10/tracin…