I almost read "lieu de meditation" as lewd meditation and wondered what these guys are up to :-)

The first long-term residents of Indian origin in the UK were indeed the lascars - sailors and seamen who travelled with the East India company.

Dean Mahomed- guy who popularised shampoo in England- did so in Georgian Eng when he travelled with his East Ind Co friends. Much depends on period/zeitgeist. Historical accounts suggest you'd be fine if you were spreading Catholicism for Portuguese, empire for British/French or Islam for Turks etc.

There are some grammatical mistakes if one were really nitpicking but it's perfectly understandable otherwise. Only a minor editing-round away from perfection :-)

We've all contributed to making the echo chamber a bad thing, which it is when the chamber is full of misinformation and hate-fuelled tribalism, dangerous to fools getting sucked in without checking beyond... but there's never been anything wrong with like-minded people just socialising nicely!

Was there any interaction with the theosophical society at this time - only because the sun prayer appears eerily similar to the gaayatri-mantra (dedicated to the sun god saavitra).

Putting together a team: The Western Christian Christian Saint who's story is based on the Buddha + The Japanese Buddhist Temple Guardian whose iconography was heavily influenced by Hercules

Great match! Kudermetova wasn't at her best (needed to be a lot calmer😀). Osorio remained composed and consistent throughout-taking every opportunity, diffusing firepower with drop-shots and high-balls. Coming back from 5-0 in the winning set despite shoulder issues is really worth a lot of praise.

This is indeed the "spot-seasoning" method. A Chinese friend told me about it and it works like magic. It's only after trying it for years that I finally understood how cast-iron woks are so popular in Chinese cuisine.

Sanskrit users tend to compress words into verb-roots (to preserve Pāñini's rule base) and the root-verb they use is kṛ . The -ment suffix corresponds to -manin suffix in Skt - which gives 'karma'. Another suffix give kara (hand/do-er). Karmakāra (artisian) uses kṛ twice - one who does karma.