https://durwasa-chakraborty.github.io/tags/society/Recent content in Society on Anachronistic MonkHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 Durwasa ChakrabortyFri, 05 Dec 2025 03:38:30 +0530https://durwasa-chakraborty.github.io/posts/english-honorifics-and-in-academia/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:38:30 +0530https://durwasa-chakraborty.github.io/posts/english-honorifics-and-in-academia/<blockquote><p><strong>“Call me Ishmael.”</strong></p> </blockquote><p>That line opens one of literature’s great sweeping saga: a man, a whale, and the bruising, salt-earning adventure of simply not dying at sea. But the name does something subtle: like a polite knock on the front door of literature. It positions the narrator. In Sanskrit, nāma means exactly that: the thing by which you call someone from afar.</p>