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Comment on Book Review: Editing Humanity by Shail Pareek

Shail Pareek — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:06:15 +0000

Interesting read and enlightening .. one thing that has always been on mind to follow but have been procastinating .. probably I could start here

Comment on Direct Flight Envy by sk roy

sk roy — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 19:15:07 +0000

Air India now flies direct to frisco from Delhi. Daily and non-stop. Bit late in 2015.
Expect a houston non-stop next year in 2017.

Comment on Wanted: A Rules Engine for Excel by Yawar

Yawar — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:54:05 +0000

Microsoft designed Access to be the natural step forward for an evolving data-forcused business app. They even start you off with friendly Excel-lookalike tables and forms so you can ease into it. And once you know SQL and how to use it, you can go quite far into building a rigidly controlled yet still quite flexible app. You can even separate the frontend from the backend (the data) and give multiple people read access.

But all of this hinges on one inescapable truth: there must be someone willing to be an ‘Access champion’ and learn all the ins and outs of SQL, data management, Access programming, and so on. And the financial analysts have to become dependent on these ‘champions’ to implement their ideas into the app.

So, ultimately, there are no easy answers here (if there were, someone would be laughing about it all the way to the bank).

Comment on Friends, Roman For Your Mother Tongue by Aditya Shankar Tripathi

Aditya Shankar Tripathi — Tue, 31 May 2016 05:57:32 +0000

I think your point is somewhat relevant here. As of now, there is no official language of India that is a well-known fact. Since we live in a culturally diversified nation, we ought to respect and regard each others mode of speaking and writing. This poses a big problem, as we cannot learn all the vernaculars, dialects. So, there must be something which serves as a common medium for the generation-to-come to understand.
I would like to add one more thing, today’s parents are so much involved in giving their child the best possible education that they only start their kids’ education in english, from speaking to writing. Now, you cannot go to each parent and ask them to value our culture and teach their kids’ local languages. So, we must do something which will help us and our next generations to preserve the valuable artwork done by the greats.

Comment on Friends, Roman For Your Mother Tongue by Turtledge

Turtledge — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:43:55 +0000

In reply to Basab Pradhan. Why not spell all beer as XXXX. The soul of the beer is in the drink, not its name? Just your logic!

Comment on Friends, Roman For Your Mother Tongue by Basab Pradhan

Basab Pradhan — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:49:34 +0000

In reply to Ritesh Shrivastava. The soul of a language is in the language, not in its script. Unless you are a calligraphist.

Comment on Friends, Roman For Your Mother Tongue by Basab Pradhan

Basab Pradhan — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:46:22 +0000

In reply to A Anand. Loving your language, being proficient in it has nothing to do with the script. The script is a tool. Don't conflate your language with its script. There are Indian languages today that are written in multiple scripts. Adopting Roman can make Indian languages more accessible to children and adults alike.

Comment on Friends, Roman For Your Mother Tongue by A Anand

A Anand — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:38:51 +0000

Let me see if I have it right: since so many of us are largely inept at reading Hindi and other Indian scripts, let’s move to the Roman script. We shall, however, still continue to create exemplary new literature thought out and written in Indian languages because “Many of them understand, speak, but do not read, or do not read fluently their mother tongue’s script”. To overcome a great inadequacy in Indian language education, let us remove ourselves one step further from its foundation and, by some magic, we will continue to be articulate in our thoughts and expression in Indian languages.

Comment on Are There No Good Companies? by Ritesh Shrivastava

Ritesh Shrivastava — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:17:09 +0000

Same behaviour as Dow Chemicals in Bhopal ..never cleaned up the site even after 30 years since the 1984 Gas tragedy

Comment on Friends, Roman For Your Mother Tongue by Ritesh Shrivastava

Ritesh Shrivastava — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:01:01 +0000

on the contracry , I know of several people now wh have downloaded Google Hindi keyboard. Writing the language in Roman script is sucking out it’s soul.It might appeal to NRI population but is being reejected whole heartedly everywhere. You go to dainik bhaskar.com , dainik jagran.com and also check the circulation figures, vernacular especially hindi newspapers circulation has grown .