{"id":102508,"date":"2023-01-12T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=102508"},"modified":"2023-01-13T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T05:26:22","slug":"r-e-asher-a-self-proclaimed-ambassador-of-the-malayalam-language-t-b-venugopala-panicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/r-e-asher-a-self-proclaimed-ambassador-of-the-malayalam-language-t-b-venugopala-panicker\/","title":{"rendered":"R E Asher, a Self-proclaimed Ambassador of the Malayalam Language: T B Venugopala Panicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102509 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/basheer-and-Venugopala-panicker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/basheer-and-Venugopala-panicker.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/basheer-and-Venugopala-panicker-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/basheer-and-Venugopala-panicker-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/basheer-and-Venugopala-panicker-525x350.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eminent writer and linguist, TB Venugopala Panicker said that the late British linguist RE Asher was a &#8220;self-proclaimed ambassador of the Malayalam language.&#8221; He was speaking at the &#8220;Ummini Balya Vivarthanam\u2014Asher Smriti&#8221; organised at the Katha stage of the Kerala Literature Festival in tribute to Asher. Panicker also commented that his English was natural and simple.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #252525;\">Basheer&#8217;s son, Anees Basheer, recalled that Asher was like an elder family member to Basheer&#8217;s family, and after Basheer&#8217;s death, he visited his home, and it became customary for people to visit Basheer&#8217;s house on his death day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminent writer and linguist, TB Venugopala Panicker said that the late British linguist RE Asher was a &#8220;self-proclaimed ambassador of the Malayalam language.&#8221; He was speaking at the &#8220;Ummini Balya Vivarthanam\u2014Asher Smriti&#8221; organised at the Katha stage of the Kerala Literature Festival in tribute to Asher. Panicker also commented that his English was natural and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":102509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102586,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102508\/revisions\/102586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}