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Hindi Songs: Mesmerizing Your Soul

Posted on 27 October 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

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Across the global population, Indian music seeks no introduction in any manner. It has captivated millions of souls beyond the boundaries. The enthusiasm and the charisma executed by the Indian Music is now a global phenomenon and needless to say that the beauty of the Indian music is scattered somewhere in the regional languages in which it is being created or sing. Well let us talk about the Hindi songs counterpart of this Indian music; means just wrap the talk around the Hindi songs of this broader segment of the music.

As Hindi is the language being spoken in the largest part of our esteemed country, it is obvious that the Hindi songs accomplish the reach beyond the horizons. If talking in bit deep, Hindi songs are available in the various formats of the music. Whether these are Bhajans, Ghazals, classical, romantic and sad versions of the music, Hindi songs do magic in every format of the music.

Here one thing is need to be discussed that the advancement of the Hindi songs is not achieved the span of some days but is a continuous journey along the centuries. A number of renowned artists have fostered the roots of the tree, nurtured the fruits and assured the immense yield that entire humanity is enjoying nowadays.

Numerous resources are available over the net that endorse the convenient availability of Hindi songs on a single click. Among all, In.com, a dedicated venture of Media conglomerate Network 18 offers online users and Hindi music lovers a unique platform where loads of Hindi songs are available in all its possible segments. The portal offers a broad criterion of song selection. Here you may choose an extensive range of songs based on music composers, singers, artists and movies.

Song selection also delivers you the categories where the users may choose Hindi songs on basis of genre. The classic collection of the golden era adds beauty to the song selection at the portal. In.com offers two ways to avail your favorite songs. Either you choose your song online and enjoy or you may download the songs after a simple sign-up and sign-in process. Whatever the method you choose, you are now able to listen and enjoy a wide range of Hindi songs of your choice from a single platform called in.com.



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Mexican Everyday (Recipes Featured on Season 4 of the PBS-TV series "Mexico One Plate at a Time")Mexican Everyday (Recipes Featured on Season 4 of the PBS-TV series "Mexico One Plate at a Time")

At last, a cookbook that brings Mexican food within easy reach: named to Food & Wine Magazine’s Year’s 25 Best Cookbooks as part of its annual Best of the Best cookbook.

In his previous books, Rick Bayless transformed America's understanding of Mexican cuisine, introducing authentic dishes and cooking methods as he walked readers through Mexican markets and street stalls. As much as Rick loves the bold flavors of Mexican foods, he understands that preparing many Mexican specialties requires more time than most of us have. Mexican Everyday is written with the time sensitivities of modern life in mind. It is a collection of 90 full-flavored recipes—like Green Chile Chicken Tacos, Shrimp Ceviche Salad, Chipotle Steak with Black Beans—that meet three criteria for "everyday" food: 1) most need less than 30 minutes' involvement; 2) they have the fresh, clean taste of simple, authentic preparations; and 3) they are nutritionally balanced, full-featured meals—no elaborate side dishes required. Companion to a thirteen-part public television series, this book provides dishes you can eat with family and friends, day in and day out.
Unusual Ways to Market Your Greeting Cards and 22 Places to Get Your Designs FeaturedUnusual Ways to Market Your Greeting Cards and 22 Places to Get Your Designs FeaturedA 20 page booklet on how to get your cards noticed in non-traditional ways. Everything from why you should send cards to your dentist, to how to get special features in national publications. Great tips for designers who are starting out and want to get their cards into the hands of people beyond friends and family. Special Section: Submissions guidelines and contacts for 22 Gift Industry publications and professional gift industry blogs that seek out new greeting card designs to feature for free. (5,000 Words and 17 greeting card images included)

Kate Harper has designed over 700 gift and greeting cards, and licenses her designs to over a dozen manufacturers on products including greeting cards, magnets, t-shirts, coasters, placemats, rubber stamps, coffee mugs, paper pads, and embroidery kits. She writes a blog for designers and has a special interest in bridging the gap between art and technology, functional websites, web based mobile apps, creating street art maps, and collaborating with indie artists on how to bring their vision into the marketplace. Visit her website at http://kateharperdesigns.com/ and blog for artists and writers http://kateharperblog.blogspot.com/
Dumdum (Featured story in the anthology "New Stories from the South: the year's best of 2005")Dumdum (Featured story in the anthology "New Stories from the South: the year's best of 2005")At first the inbred calves are a burden and embarrassment to "the boy," that is until the local squatters at the little country store begin trying to sell them to a stranger passing through. "Never name a cow," one of the old men tells the boy. Too late; the boy has already named them and is in love with them, especailly the cow he calls Dumdum. Every day the locals watch the boy parade the cows along the main road through Howell, Georgia, and even help him chase them off the railroad tracks when a frieght train rumbles through. Though they dislike the calves as much as the boy likes them, they don't have the heart to see them dead on the tracks.
Adobe Business Catalyst: Design full-featured websites without the hassles of developmentAdobe Business Catalyst: Design full-featured websites without the hassles of developmentAdobe Business Catalyst is a hosted application for building and managing online businesses. Using this unified platform and without back-end coding, Web designers can build everything from amazing Websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to mini-sites. To work in BC, designers use Dreamweaver (CS4 or later) with the free Business Catalyst extension installed. The cost of hosting a site with BC ranges from a few dollars a month and up, depending on the size of the site and the level of traffic, and the designer can pass on the cost to their client.

 

This is the first official book on using BC. In this comprehensive, hands-on, step-by-step guide, the reader will learn how to set up eCommerce on the hosted solution. As they work through the chapters, the readers can also follow along with the video tutorials linked in from AdobeTV (tv.adobe.com).

 

This book covers how to set up a new site, work with web pages, organize the site hierarchy, upload assets via FTP, configure modules, and customize their appearance. It includes best practices to set up site navigation, forums, password-protected areas and web forms. By the end, the reader will have their own working online business.

 

Once it is live, the designer or the client can use the robust reporting interface in Business Catalyst to review metrics and run custom reports in the customer database. By analyzing the data, the online store can be optimized to improve sales revenue and increase customer adoption.

Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things ConsideredWord of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things ConsideredStarting in 1995, NPR’s All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by “poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together the poems that have been featured on NPR, providing a window onto the dynamic contemporary poetry scene. A child playing with flashes of sunlight in the aisle of an airplane; a woman describing tropical fruit to someone in a faraway country; a man building a deck with his dead father’s hammer; the musings of a Barbie doll participating in a 12-step program: these poems powerfully and lyrically transform the stuff of every day life. A celebration of the poetic voice that includes 33 acclaimed writers, this vibrant anthology proves beyond any doubt that poetry is far more than just words on paper.

Quincy Troupe • Czeslaw Milosz • Campbell McGrath • C.D. Wright • Jack Gilbert • Heather McHugh • David Lehman • Wang Ping • Joseph Brodsky • Paul Beatty • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Paul Muldoon • Lucille Clifton • Naomi Shihab Nye • Richard Blanco • Albert Goldbarth • Carrie Allen McCray • Belle Waring • Russell Edson • Kevin Young • Nuali Di Dhomhnaill • Charles Harper Webb • Denise Duhamel • Yusef Komunyakaa • Hal Sirowitz • Lucia Perillo • Amy Gerstler • Maura Stanton • Marilyn Chin • Philip Booth • Jane Cooper • Diane DiPrima • Elizabeth Spires
A World of New and Fabulous! Baby Names: Contents of Featured New and Original Names for BabiesA World of New and Fabulous! Baby Names: Contents of Featured New and Original Names for BabiesThere will always remain a need in the World for New Names. New Baby Names! Here you will find ALL and EVERYTHING that this Title description claims. Page after page of NEW Names for Babies. This noticeable feature removes all possibility of a book of repetitive name appearances. FINDING that Special Name! Now you can browse through literally thousands of 'New' Names. Here is a collection of 'New' names that will end your search for that 'New' name for baby you've been hoping you'll find. 'New' AND non-repetitive names, unlike any other, with vast numbers of name choices that will meet with your desire of a Special, 'New' name that consolidates the future of your child as being a very special and interestingly named individual. This book quickly identifies itself to be a large reference of 'New' by Originality Baby Names and takes all that Work out of searching. It's the Author's hopes, and beliefs, also, that everyone will be happy and successful in result of searching and FINDING that Special Name for Baby, all within the pages of this much awaited and unique book of MANY THOUSANDS of 'New' Names. How the Author first came upon the idea of a book of 'New' Baby Names is explained in the book. It's involved around a simple cup of tea she shared with her own grandmother one afternoon and makes interesting and amusing reading.

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Indian and British Culture – Comparison in Language, Culture and Society

Posted on 08 September 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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Indian and British Culture – Comparison in Language, Culture and Society

India is a country of diverse culture. It has 22 official languages and over a thousand spoken languages. This site is an effort to provide information on each known Indian Language.

Individual mother tongues in India number several hundred. According to Census of India of 2001, 29 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, 122 by more than 10,000. Two languages have played an important role in the history of India: Persian and English.

Sanskrit and Tamil are the classical languages of India according to the Government.

Article 343 of the Indian Constitution recognizes Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of central government India. The Constitution also allows for the continuation of use of the English language for official purposes. Article 345 provides constitutional recognition to “official languages” of the union to include any language adopted by a state legislature as the official language of that state. In effect, there are “official languages” at the state and center level but no one “national language”.

Until the Twenty-First Amendment of the Constitution in 1967, the country recognized 14 official regional languages. The Eighth Schedule and the Seventy-First Amendment provided for the inclusion of Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali, thereby increasing the number of official regional languages of India to 18.

The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages, spoken in different parts the country, namely Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Meitei, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Hindi is an official language of the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Marathi is an official language of Maharashtra. Punjabi is a official language of Punjab. Gujarati is the official language of Gujarat. Tamil is a official language of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Malayalam is the official language of Kerala and Lakshadweep. Kannada is the official language of Karnataka. Telugu is the official language of Andhra Pradesh. English is the co-official language of the Indian Union. 1

Whereas, in UK the widely recognized language is English and English is recognized as officially recognized language is English by the government. The other languages in UK are Welsh, Irish, Ulster Scots, Cornish, Gaelic and British Sign Language.

The details of Languages, Society and Culture can be described as under:

Languages in India

The different states of India have different official languages, some of them not recognized by the central government. Some states have more then one official language. Bihar in east India has three official languages – Hindi, Urdu and Bengali – which are all recognized by the central government. But Sikkim, also in east India, has four official languages of which only Nepali is recognized by the central government. Besides the languages officially recognized by central or state governments, there are other languages which don’t have this recognition and their speakers are running political struggles to get this recognition. Central government decided that Hindi was to be the official language of India and therefore it also has the status of official language in the states. 3

Language in the UK

The United Kingdom does not have a constitutionally defined official language. English is the main language (being spoken monolingually by more than 70% of the UK population) and is thus the de facto official language.

Other native languages to the Isles include Welsh, Irish, Ulster Scots, Cornish, Gaelic and British Sign Language.

Immigrants have naturally brought many foreign languages from across the globe.2

Indian Society & Culture

Hierarchy

The influences of Hinduism and the tradition of the caste system have created a culture that emphasizes established hierarchical relationships. Indians are always conscious of social order and their status relative to other people, be they family, friends, or strangers. All relationships involve hierarchies. In schools, teachers are called gurus and are viewed as the source of all knowledge. The patriarch, usually the father, is considered the leader of the family. The boss is seen as the source of ultimate responsibility in business. Every relationship has a clear- cut hierarchy that must be observed for the social order to be maintained.

The Role of the Family

People typically define themselves by the groups to which they belong rather than by their status as individuals. Someone is deemed to be affiliated to a specific state, region, city, family, career path, religion, etc. This group orientation stems from the close personal ties Indians maintain with their family, including the extended family. The extended family creates a myriad of interrelationships, rules, and structures. Along with these mutual obligations comes a deep-rooted trust among relatives.

Just Can’t Say No

Indians do not like to express ‘no,’ be it verbally or non- verbally. Rather than disappoint you, for example, by saying something isn’t available, Indians will offer you the response that they think you want to hear. This behaviour should not be considered dishonest. An Indian would be considered terribly rude if he did not attempt to give a person what had been asked. Since they do not like to give negative answers, Indians may give an affirmative answer but be deliberately vague about any specific details.

This will require you to look for non-verbal cues, such as a reluctance to commit to an actual time for a meeting or an enthusiastic response. 3

British Society, People and Culture

The United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is comprised of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It is important not only to be aware of these geographical distinctions, but also the strong sense of identity and nationalism felt by the populations of these four nations.

The terms ‘English’ and ‘British’ do not mean the same thing. ‘British’ denotes someone who is from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. ‘English’ refers to people from England. People from Scotland are ‘Scots’, from Wales ‘Welsh’ and from Northern Ireland ‘Irish’. Be sure not to call someone Welsh, Scots, or Northern Irish ‘English’.

The Class System

Although in the past few decades, people from varied backgrounds have had greater access to higher education, wealth distribution is changing and more upward/downward mobility is occurring, the British class system is still very much intact although in a more subconscious way. The playing field is levelling but the British still seem to pigeon-hole people according to class.

Class is no longer simply about wealth or where one lives; the British are able to suss out someone’s class through a number of complex variables including demeanour, accent, manners and comportment.

A Multicultural Society

Formerly a very homogenous society, since World War II, Britain has become increasingly diverse as it has accommodated large immigrant populations, particularly from its former colonies such as India, Pakistan and the West Indies. The mixture of ethnic groups and cultures make it difficult to define “Britishness” nowadays and a debate rages within the nation as to what now really constitutes being a Briton. 2

After reviewing the above literature it is significantly proven that the culture in UK and India has many differences in them. These differences bring the changes in perception, values and attitude of the local people, and are one of the major obstacles in marketing of any product which is marketed in India and United Kingdom.

References:

http://www.indianlanguages.com/main/index.php http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/UK.html http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/india-country-profile.html.

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The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook: More Than 300 Things You Can Do With a Law Degree, Updated and RevisedThe Lawyer's Career Change Handbook: More Than 300 Things You Can Do With a Law Degree, Updated and Revised

There Are More Than One Million Lawyers in America

A law degree is not necessarily a ticket to succes, wealth and happiness. Perhaps it's dissatisfaction with the hours, the firm, or the work itself, but every year, more and more lawyers want out. Now there's a real-world primer that can help virtually anyone in this position. Wheather you're merely considering a change or firmly committed to one, The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook provides all the tools and information you need. A surprising number of lawyers in this country have discovered that a law degree is not necessarily a ticket to wealth, success and happiness, and now they want out.

Hindi Greenberg -- founder and president of Lawyers in Transition -- has written an indispensable quidebook for those in that position. Chock full of helpful advice, exercises, listings of resources and real-life stories, The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook provides all the tools needed to help the unsatisfied many who are either considering a new career or actively pursuing one.

This one-of-a-kind volume can help legal professionals identify, target, and get new jobs that best suit their abilities, background, personality and interests, while offering them ways to cope with the inevitable stress of changing fields. And those who wish to remain in the law world will discover invaluable methods for creating more satisfaction in their current fields, for exploring other areas of the law that they may not have previously considered, and for determining if a solo or small practice is the right way to go.
Rampur Ka Pradhan (Hindi Novel)Rampur Ka Pradhan (Hindi Novel)More or less, here or there, virtually everywhere, Devils do exist in our society and their existence is making people’s life miserable and deplorable. One such barbaric and savage devil’s name is Nambardaar. He is an epitome of squashed moral and sordid character, who gobbles up all the money sanctioned for the development of village Rampur. Nambardaar owns bus service, fertilizer store, hotel and engineering college. He plays similar devilish tactics in all businesses. Nambardaar’s paramount goal is to garner landfill of money, so all his future generations could relish life without doing any work. Due to fully commercialization of politics, seeing abundant opportunities to make money in this, Nambardaar is focusing his vision on this business. In his plan of execution, Nambardaar appointed a dalit farm laborer Gangu as village chief, but dignified and self-respectful Gangu didn’t let Nambardaar succeed in his nefarious schemes, instead, he appointed young, smart and brilliant Muskaan as shikshamitra. Muskaan did such an act, which exacerbated Nambardaar’s desperation. Utterly frustrated and scorching Nambardaar orchestrated a horrific conspiracy which imperiled the lives of hundreds of children, therefore humungous pandemonium shrouded village Rampur..…

BUT, Nambardaar was hoisted by his own petard, and that parched his incorrigible soul.

A contemporary socio-political fiction based on the backdrop of a crucial and poignant issue in India

Indian government is pouring money for the welfare of rural and urban schools, and officials’ modus operandi is to siphon all that money to their personal accounts. India’s mid-day-meal program is the largest school lunch program in the world. More than 150 million children are covered under this scheme. Such a noble program is brutally devastated by flagrant corruption. Due to people’s greed and callousness, It's poised to a moribund state and destined to be a fiasco.

this novel is in Hindi.

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Learn HindiLearn HindiHindi belongs to the Indo-European family, Indic branche of the Indo-Iranian group.Hindi is the most widely spoken language of the Republic of India, centered principally in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in the north-central part of the country. Its 275 million speakers rank it as one of the leading languages of the world but it is, nevertheless, understood by only about one third of India's population. When independence was achieved in 1947, Hindi was chosen as one of India's national language.
Like most of the languages of northern India, Hindi is a direct descendant of Sanskrit. It has been influenced and enriched by Dravidian,Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Portuguese and English. Hindi and Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, are virtually the same language, though the former is written in the Sanskrit characters and the latter in the Perso-Arabic script. Pure Hindi derives most of its vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu contains many words from Persian and Arabic. The basis of both languages is actually Hindustani, the colloquial form of speech that served as the lingua franca of much of India for more than four centuries. Hindi was originally a variety of Hindustani spoken in the area of New Delhi. Its development into a national language had its beginnings in the colonial period, when the British began to cultivate it as a standard among government officials. Later it was used for literary purposes and has since then become the vehicle for prose and poetry.
What Economics is About (Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, ... Gujarati, Bengali and Korean Edition)What Economics is About (Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, ... Gujarati, Bengali and Korean Edition)Designed for teachers at every grade level and in all disciplines, What Economics Is About is a simple, time-saving way to teach the fundamental economics content every K-12 student needs to know. A one-page overview of 'What Economics Is About' gives you a visual roadmap of economics in an easy-to-follow flowchart, and is ideal as an overhead or handout for your students. Armed with the basic content in What Economics Is About, students will leave your classroom with the skills to become productive workers and knowledgeable consumers. Use this resource as an energizing introduction to economics at any grade level; you'll give your students a solid knowledge base and a desire to explore more complex and in-depth economics material. Plus, as an added bonus, you'll expand your own knowledge and appreciation for economics!

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A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts: With Scope and Sequence Guidelines, K-12 - ISBN 1561834874

The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.

Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:

- Establishing and building credit

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- Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Physical EducationAnalysis of Teaching and Learning in Physical EducationAnalysis of Teaching and Learning in Physical Education presents research-based best practices for teaching physical education in order to help pre-service and practicing teachers improve their skills through analysis and reflection. The text begins with an informal analysis of teaching and then quickly moves into systematic strategies for analyzing student and teacher behaviors and interactions. Based on Bill Anderson s groundbreaking work, Analysis of Teaching Education (1980), this text is designed to help physical education teachers meet NASPE s Standards for Advanced Programs in Teacher Education.
Goldilocks (Hindi Edition)Goldilocks (Hindi Edition)"Stop Goldilocks, go back home, Woods aren't safe when you're all alone!" But Goldilocks doesn't heed the warning. And so begins her adventure! She walks through the woods until she arrives at the bears' house and sees three steaming bowls of porridge.

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Web Technology in India

Posted on 08 September 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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India is a country of diverse culture. It has 22 official languages and over a thousand spoken languages. India also has a very fast growing base of Netizens. Recent years have seen a fast growth of internet awareness in India. Unfortunately the growth of Indian Language Web Content is not that good. Most of the web sites published from India are in English, and not in Hindi or other regional languages.

The prime reason for this is not the non-availability of technology, but the non-awareness about available technology. There are ample of solutions available for web publishing in Indian languages today. Even feature rich content management systems are available. But where is the awareness?

Web Designers often ask me…. Can we publish our site in Hindi? Why not, I say! It’s as easy publishing your web site in Hindi as it is in English. What extra skills do you need? Technically not much, because the tools available can take the sweat out from your job.

Once upon a time displaying Indian language Contents in a web browser was an impossible task. It was in 1995 that a Mumbai based company – Cybershoppee – took lead and few like minded technologists came togather in making the firstever Indian language website. Ever since then, new tools are getting added for web publishing in Hindi and other languages.

With the introduction of UNICODE, things have started becoming more easy. In the early days, fonts of the TTF category were used, now they have been replaced by UNICODE. No doubt, UNICODE is still to settle, fact remains that the default UNICODE font Mangal being available in OS like MS Windows XP and above, makes it easy for the ndian Webmaster to at least think of having his web site in Indian Language.

It’s now even possible to directly type the text contents in Indian Languages inside a web based form. Thus managing Indian language contents is no longer an issue. Already many web sites are using this technology that also offers added user convenience.

In the Indian market, at least 5 suits of applications are readily available, to manage the contents. In some of my later articles I will be taking a review of these applications that are helping spread Indian language Contents on the web.

 

 



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Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another LanguageDreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language

An eye-opening and courageous memoir that explores what learning a new language can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, ourselves.

 

After miraculously surviving a serious illness, Katherine Rich found herself at an impasse in her career as a magazine editor. She spontaneously accepted a freelance writing assignment to go to India, where she found herself thunderstruck by the place and the language, and before she knew it she was on her way to Udaipur, a city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, in order to learn Hindi. Rich documents her experiences—ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating—using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India, but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her. Fascinated by the process, she went on to interview linguistics experts around the world, reporting back from the frontlines of the science wars on what happens in the brain when we learn a new language. She brings both of these experiences together seamlessly in Dreaming in Hindi, a remarkably unique and thoughtful account of self-discovery.

Sketches from My Past: Encounters with India's Oppressed (Hindi Edition)This is a translation of Mahadevi Varma's 'Ateet Ke Chalchitra' by Neera Kuckreja Sohoni. Includes case studies with poor Indians, mostly women.
Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and NationMahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and NationThis edited volume of translations covers the major political essays of India's first feminist Hindi poet. A devout follower and advocate of Gandhi, Mahadevi Varma is a household name in India and is a major woman of letters in the modern Hindi world. The essays collected in this volume represent some of Mahadevi Varma’s most famous writings on the “woman question” in India. The collection also includes an introduction to her life, with biographical notes, an analysis of her importance in the field of Hindi letters, as well as a selection of her poems – these latter because Mahadevi Varma made her mark in the world of Hindi literature through her poetry, and a volume of translations would be incomplete without a sampling of them. The introduction to the translated volume sketches Mahadevi Varma's life and work and her significance to both the development of modern standard Hindi as well as to the nascent women's movement underway in the 1920s in India. Little scholarly attention has been given in the academy outside of India to Varma’s numerous contributions to women’s education, to the development of modern standard Hindi, and to political thought during the Independence movement in late-colonial India. This volume of translations engages themes like language and nationalism, women’s roles as artists, the politics of motherhood and marriage—themes that continue to be relevant to women’s lives in contemporary India and to movements for women’s rights outside India as well. This volume of translations of Mahadevi Varma’s feminist political essays is the first of its kind. While some of these essays, especially those from Mahadevi Varma’s Hamari Shrinkhala Ki Kariyan collection have been translated by Neera K. Sohoni and published under the title Links in the Chain (Katha, 2003), there is no sustained treatment of Varma’s political thinking in one, accessible volume. While there is ample work on Varma in Hindi, scholars of feminism (and students of Hindi who are in the nascent stages of language acquisition) have nowhere to turn for a comprehensive sampling of her work. Mahadevi Varma is also one of the most difficult writers to access even for trained scholars of Hindi language and literature. Her highly Sanskritized diction and her stylized prose sketches make her work a pleasure to read in the original but daunting to translate into English. This volume has contributions from some of the most highly regarded Hindi experts. In the editor’s introduction to the volume of translations a brief biographical sketch followed by an analysis of the political climate of Northern India has been provided so that the reader unfamiliar with India of the 1920s-1940s will have the necessary historical context to place her work. The introduction to the volume also raises the issue of why she gave up writing poetry and turned solely to writing prose when she became involved with the movements for women’s rights and national independence. Finally, the volume provides feminist cultural historians a rich archive of how Indian women like Mahadevi Varma were actively negotiating their lives as women, activists, artists, teachers, and married women. This work will be of use to scholars of Hindi language and literature in the US/European academy and should be of interest to cultural and feminist historians of modern India. This volume will introduce Mahadevi Varma’s literary scope to an English-speaking audience, and will serve as a reference for feminist historians of the nationalist period in the Indian subcontinent.
Poetry, Politics and Culture: Essays on Indian Texts and ContextsPoetry, Politics and Culture: Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts

This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination—in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English—from its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite and disseminate the shifting coordinates of nationalist imagination in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of the nation.

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This cutting-edge book should be of interest to scholars of Indian writings in English, Hindi and Panjabi, gender studies, dalit and diaspora studies, postcolonial poetry and to students reading South Asian literature and culture.
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How Important is the Medium of Education

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The medium of instruction is very important at every level of education and more so during the elementary education as that is the time when a child is exposed to the vast world of knowledge. It is a long held debate in India whether the medium of education should be universally recognized English language or the regional language. There are pros and cons of both the options. While English is important when one grows up and goes into a professional life, regional language has an advantage of being easily understood, thus helping the students grab the right information and understand better. Educationists around the world have debated this issue but to no concrete result.

 

In India, where there is a multilingual culture, there is not one accepted medium of instruction. Though Hindi is considered the national language but it is not spoken in many parts of India like South India and East India. There are other regional languages. Thus, many state-run schools follow the language of their region to impart education. However, in urban India, English is the preferred medium of education for obvious reasons. Even people from economically weaker backgrounds and those who do not speak English themselves prefer to send their children to English-medium schools.

 

The prime reason is that English is the preferred medium of higher education  and is accepted worldwide. There are no good professional courses available in regional languages. Thus, it is believed those who study in regional languages tend to lag behind those who have studied in the English language. Worldwide, studies have been conducted to show which medium is better. Purists reckon that language is not just a means of communication but also a cultural window which introduces one to the social and intellectual surroundings. And language development leads to educational development, which in turn leads to national development.

 

Till a long time, the medium of instruction in India was the dominant regional language from primary to the high school level. English was only introduced as a subject after the primary level. English as a medium of education throughout schooling was only found in a few schools but that starting changing slowly. Soon, English was directly related to being forward-looking, modern and developed. This trend worked in the favor of many but gave inferiority complex to a lot others. People who could not speak or understand English started feeling that they were no good. The point is highly debatable. Acquiring knowledge, as such, doesn’t need only one particular language.

 

There was a study conducted in the US in Ramirez et al in 1991 with 2352 students. The study compared three sets of Spanish-speaking minority students. The first set had studied only through the English medium, the second group had started education in the Spanish medium but switched to English in one or two years, while the third group started education in the Spanish medium and switched to English after four to six years. The three groups were then tested to find out which group showed the best results in English and in educational achievement in general. Contrary to the popular belief, the third group showed the best results while the other two groups were falling way behind.

 

This completely quashes the accepted conviction that English is the best medium of instruction. In fact, for children who do not speak English at home find it very hard to grab concepts in an alien language. Then, the pressure doubles on them as they are expected to learn a foreign language with the concepts simultaneously. On the other hand, if they receive the same learning in the language that they are comfortable in, it becomes much easier and convenient to understand the subject.

 

However, when it comes to higher education, English medium is a must. It is foolish to think that streams like Engineering, Medical, MBA or any technical course can be imparted in a regional language. The first problem is acceptability and the second is terminology. There are not enough terms in the regional languages that can define the usages in these fields. Also, even if one were to get this education in the regional language, he/she cannot use it professionally as the whole world does no understand the same language and they end up becoming misfits.

 

In India, Tamil Nadu is the one state where some universities offer professional courses in Tamil medium. For instance, Madurai Kamraj University offers many courses in the Tamil medium through distance learning programmes. It offers Postgraduate Diploma in Labour Law & Administrative Law and Postgraduate Diploma in Information & Communication Laws in the Tamil medium. In addition to this, Algappa University offers BA (History) and BBA in the Tamil language. But if one does a college search or a university search to find courses in vernacular medium, there are not many choices which speak volumes about the relevance of such a thing. In today’s competitive world, it is advisable to get higher education in the English language and prepare a base for it from school only. Regional language as a medium of instruction should be used only till the primary level.



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