2013/3/16 Tejaswini Niranjana
> Hope this will be of interest. Just published in the Economic and
> Political Weekly.
>
> Thanks Tejaswini for the paper. All the best for the inititaive.
One key step that was missed out in the past digitization initiatives was
making the meta data about the boo
This is a difficult question! But let me share a few preliminary thoughts.
I have helped to host a couple of digital literacy workshops (including
Wikipedia editing) and will be planning more in at least five languages.
Some learnings from work already done:
--Student interest/motivation relates
Thanks for the affirmative mail, Amir.
Although most Indians speak at least three to four languages, and some are
quite bilingual in English and an Indian language, the bilingualism doesn't
translate into bi-literacy (if I may coin a term). Because tertiary
education is mandated to be in English,
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Tejaswini Niranjana wrote:
> Hope this will be of interest. Just published in the Economic and
> Political Weekly.
>
>
And, also at <
http://www.epw.in/commentary/indian-languages-indian-higher-education.html>
You mention "Creation of Indian language materials by s
Thank you very much for this article. Information about the usage of
the languages of India in different social contexts, and especially in
education, is very useful for my work.
The impression that I had about the state of local languages in India
is that English is used a lot even though not eve
