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In Punjabi "जनानी" is used to refer to wives or more broadly ladies

Other Indian languages - जननी (as opposed to जनानी) refers to mothers and their "procreative" genius

जननी is not used colloquially in most languages.
Strangely in Punjabi it is used with a modification "जनानी"!
Is it a modification?

Or is it derived from a different root?

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It looks like this has a persian root

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenana (from @RavikiranRao )

Looks like the linkage with the sanskrit जननी can be fully ruled out
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A random thought on "abortion"

The middle-of-the-road position in the West is

"Abortions should be safe, legal and rare"

But if it is going to be safe and legal, how will you ensure it will remain rare?

It is only religion that can keep it rare despite it being safe and legal
A related thought -

As we now live in a world ( at least in the West) where the stigma with regard to illegitimate children is practically absent, the case for abortions is weaker than ever before
100 years ago it was hard for an unmarried woman to remain "respectable" after giving birth to a child

As the word "bastard" has gone completely out of use, it should ideally have been accompanied by a greater outrage against abortion!
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Found an old out-of-print book in my house - "Stories from Indian Classics" written by V Krishnaswami Aiyar

This was originally a Sanskrit compilation by Aiyar - a famous judge of Madras High Court (1863-1911)

Later translated to English by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
The history around this book is interesting

It was originally titled "Arya-charitam" in Sanskrit by Aiyar, when first published 110+ years ago
And it was compiled by Mr Aiyar as a "counter" to a provocative convocation speech by Lord Curzon in 1905!

Curzon challenged the "ideals" of the Indian people by suggesting that the notion of Truth is fundamentally "Western"
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"National story" too has "ethno-cultural" basis

For US - the "national" narrative is one of individual liberty, "no taxation w/o representation", constitutionalism

But these are specifically Anglo-Saxon ideas

As US becomes ethnically diverse this national narrative will weaken
That's because not all ethnicities and cultures place the same degree of emphasis on "individual liberty", "limited government" as the Anglo Saxons do

There is a history behind these ideas, rooted in Old Blighty. With intellectual antecedents perhaps predating even Magna Carta
As America grows increasingly "hispanic", and maybe even Asiatic, will these new tribes regard these notions with the same reverence?

No
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