25th April 2014 – Project ‘Mausam’ — talk on ‘The Coastal Sites: Possible Port Towns of the Harappan Period in Gujarat’ by Dr. Y.S. Rawat, Director, Gujarat State Department of Archaeology.    Venue: Conference Room I, India International Centre (IIC),New Delhi   at 06:30PM.   For information about future talks and events, please contactmausamproject@gmail.com .

Abstract: In descriptive grammar the word substantive denotes a class of words primarily noun as ‘substances’ i.e. names of persons, places, things etc. Substantive verb on the other hand can be defined as set of verbs that denotes an affirmation or existence in opposite to negative verb that denotes negation. In Bengali as like many other languages of the world there is a superfluity of substantive verbs. In Bengali the three main substantive verbs are [hɔ/ ho] ‘to be’ , [ach] ‘is/are’ and [thak] ‘to remain’. Among these three verbs the second one is a defective verb in Bengali. Because the verb root [ach] is not conjugated in all tenses and moods. The verb [ach] has no future form in Bengali and it is neither conjugated in imperative mood. The scope of this paper is to show their use in syntactic level in Bengali where these verbs does not always have the role of substantive verb because of shift of semantic connotation.

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Lecture by Dr. Sara Kuehn on Monsters as Bearer of Life-Giving Powers? Trans-Religious Migrations of an Ancient Western Asian Symbolism (9th to 14th Century AD)

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Talk on “Manuscript collection of Rampur Raza Library: An Exposition” by Prof. Azizuddin Husain, Director, Rampur Raza Library on 16th December 2013 at 4:30PM Venue: Lecture Room , New Delhi – 110 001 Time: 4:30PM The exhibition will remain open to public from 16th- 22nd December, 2013, 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m

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SPECIAL Lecture on Making of Interactive Multimedia DVD on Tanjavur Brhadisvara Temple by Dr. R.Nagaswamy, former Director, Department of Archaeology, Govt. of Tamil Nadu and Former Vice-Chancellor, Kancheepuram University. Chair Dr. (Mrs.)Kapila Vatsyayan, Trustee, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Trust. on Venue: Auditorium, C. V. Mess, Janpath, New Delhi Time:04:15PM

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