I tried to learn Urdu by a correspondence course from Jamia Millia Islamia..it was a disaster, couldn't figure out how to write! I can just about get by reading Arabic now (from the "Toyota" and "Sony" neon signs in Muscat)...but Urdu defeated me. Would like to know Radhika's experiences....
On 4/27/06, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>(am learning to write Urdu now)curious to know how? one-on one sessions with an Urdu expert? or DVD, websites and other such pedagogic material ?
it is interesting to note that till late 70s hindi films from bombay would have Urdu titles...at least just some key credit tags or perhaps just the name of the film...but soon urdu just vanished from that space...
have been really interested to visit one of these re-invented madrassas in calcutta...i have heard that in many cases they have managed to generate a lot of interest in Urdu, and a lot of otherwise 'kupamundak' (frog in the well) Hindu bongs have actually started taking classes there...
On 4/26/06, Radhika, Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:for all of you fans of six degrees of seperation (a film i recommend), the story of how i got onto Silk might prove the now common adage. I took the train to Bangalore from Chennai in December 2003 when i had come to India to undertake a training course in video editing (chose to combine this with holiday). I began chatting with the gentleman next to me-one Biju Chacko-on a variety of inconsequential things and he mentioned that I might consider Silk as a place to converse(he added that most of the conversations would be similarly inconsequential and attractively odd!). I later found out that I had another connection to Silk through Vardhani (my friend Preetham's wife).The thread that binds me to Silk is lurking. I professionally lurked at the World Bank for a few years and now I work at a non-profit in Vancouver ( www.icsc.ca) and lurk in the dramatic documentary shorts world. I speak Spanish and gravitate toward languages (am learning to write Urdu now), writing poetry, and music of all sorts. The skills I really envy are the ability to draw or paint and to play an instrument(can only play my voice). Its pretty safe to conclude that my numerical literacy except for dealing with household budgetary figures every now and then is fairly dormant. Somebody famous once said that mathematics is the ability to predict the future and truly i am unable to do that! My Eureka moments are likely to be in the middle of congested traffic and when in a crowd rather than a bathtub!We keep a cozy house at our apartment but house guests are always welcome and my culinary skills are in an emerging market situation right now-there is greater demand (from my husband of 3 months vintage) and supply seems to be keeping up. Well, one of you will have to pay me a visit and verify that for yourself!Cheers.Radhika
2006/4/25, Ashok Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Since introductions seem to be the flavor of the moment, here goes.
I 've been on silk for about a year, i think. I was on the evolt.org chat
list, and one day Madhu sent
a link to a thread on this list, dont remember what it was about, but it
was certainly interesting.
after that I signed into the silk list.
i am originally from Madras (and before that from Pune, Calcutta,
Tinsukia, New Delhi etc... my dad
was in the army). about 7 years back, I shifted myself to Kenya, where I
've been ever since. I am
a technology consultant specially focused upon the sub-saharan Africa
region that includes:
kenya, uganda, tanzania, ethiopia , rwanda and burundi. At one time i used
to deal with congo, but
they tend not to pay with currency, so i had to drop that.
in this region there are no specialized software companies, call centers,
development houses etc...
but people still want software, customized applications, websites,
services and so on. generally its
the governments, the NGOs and the aid agencies, or big shady corporations
who have money to
spend - and so i basically chase the money. i also tried my hand at a
couple of other things on
the side,like for e.g . importing toilet paper from egypt and selling it
her, but it was a dirty business,
so i quit.
i like drinking beer, reading, travelling (not neccessarily in that order)
apart from work. at the moment
i am reading the book of mormon, because one of their missionaries (and we
get plennnnty of
them types here) left a free copy at my doorstep. if any silk-lister is
anytime in this part of the
world, i promise to buy them beer - and if you are decent enough, i have a
spare room in my house.
i blog intermittently at http://www.unganisha.org.
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Radhika, Y.R.
Project Manager, ICSC
Centering Women in Reconstruction and Governance
International Center for Sustainable Cities
Vancouver, BC
Ph: 604-666-0061--
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