Alphabetic enigmas (some Intercultural Competence required)

Lately, Dr Ramya Singh, who is a lecturer at the Institute of Technology and Management in Gorakhpur, has posted an intriguing, most witty, and aborably funny question on the LinkedIn Questions and Answers Forum, warning, needlessly, that any solution would be strictly in the field of creative multilinguals.

Briefly, RS invited the readers to complete an association puzzle for which the general idea was suggested in the first line:

A (outline of a standing woman, below the waist), B, C, ... , X, Y, Z. Ka (sideview of a naked kid, ank aur akshar doknow Hindi mein likhen and just imagine), Kha (RaVa, twist and turn, strike and rub, horizontally and vertically as required), ... , Ha.

For a few days, nobody on the LinkedIn forum seemed to be willing to have a go at this enigma.

Here is how I, albeit hesitantly, solved the puzzle:

ALDEVPHANABEGATRI

A (outline of a standing woman, below the waist, I go along with that), B (pregnant in profile), C (very wobbly indeed), D (half the population of Magdeburg), E (my hairdo, according to my toddler daughter), F (E in the process of creation), G (is gonna bite you), H (a very finite ladder), I (my daughter shows me her first drawing), J (the wry smile of my granny), K (just before chup de), L (angularity), M (Taj Mahal upside down), N (cunnilingus, Kamasutra), O (Nagarjuna, shunyata), P (Aishwarya Rai in profile), Q (Nagarjuna deconstructs his own logic), R (Aishwarya, again, one step forward), S (my tummy when trying to say Chandu ke chacha ne Chandu ki chachi ko Chandni Chowk mein Chandni raat mein Chaandi ke chamach se Chatni chatayi), T (the end of the road), U (pyaala piyo lo), V (hamsa, aakaash mein), W (together), X (my headless self in a portrait by my daughter), Y (my pants), Z (see N), and Ka (ank aur akshar doknow Hindi mein Likhen, accha), Kha (I go along), Ga (amputation of a leg, knee miracuously saved), Gha (Hema Malini in a scene from Sholay), Nga (what Amitabh thought of this), Ca (the nest of a martingale), Cha (aum, in another creation, by a different god), Ja (ten rupees, pleese?), Jha (pretty girl beckoning), Nya (just a little bit), Tta (what I get from the drycleaning), Ttha (half of the face of Preety in KHNH), Dda (what Shahrukh thought of that), Ddha (what I bring to the drycleaning),  Nga (icicle), Ta (damned chair!), Tha (Avalokiteshvara, abhaya), Da (half an eye with a tear), Dha (Hema again, untangled), Na (how could one sit on that?), Pa (mukarna), Pha (gopini, entranced by Krshna), Ba (broken spectacle), Bha (spoiled experiment of...), Ma (... Schroedingers Cat), Ya (Aishwarya in profile, torso view), Ra (basic X), La (Freudian dreams), Va (the need for plastic surgery), Sha (2A), Ssha (spotted mukarna), Sa (obviously bent and straight), Ha (and back on the road, onwards, heading for more adventures).

How about that for a very intercultural alphabet?

 

Francis Laleman