Braj kachru biography of rory end

Kachru, Braj B., Yamuna Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson, eds.

Table of Contents Braj B. Kachru Index Kashmiri Writers Download in pdf format. There are books everywhere in his small office at the UI, spilling from bookshelves onto worktables, the plush visitor's chair, and the floor. Even his computer monitor wears a journal, like a hat. A self-confessed book addict, he reads and rereads them all.

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Every now and then he writes one of his own and the international academia sits up, as it has for three decades. Indeed, books are his passion. But language is his life. Since arriving on campus in , Kachru has written more than a dozen influential books, coedited the trailblazing journal, World Englishes, and attained some of the University's highest honors, such as being designated a Jubilee Professor and serving as head of the Linguistics Department and director of the Center for Advanced Study.

His research specialty, sociolinguistics, is one of the department's research pillars. Though now a world-renowned authority on the English language, the India-born Kachru spoke only Hindi and his mother tongue, Kashmiri, until he was But he had the advantages of a highly educated family that was part of the Kashmiri Pandit community renowned for its achievements in language, literature, art, and, above all, education.

Indeed, the term "Pandit" means "revered teacher" in Sanskrit. Kachru's brother and father, too, were educators. Kachru was born in in Srinagar, a city in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, into a lively, extended family that eventually consisted of 18 siblings and cousins.