Red Hat To Roll Out Linux OS Hindi Version

"NEW DELHI: In a couple of months, Red Hat is rolling out a Hindi version of the Linux operating system in India. Red Hat Inc chief executive officer and president Matthew Szulik told eFE that the revenue from India is likely to double this calendar over the last year."

AXN now in Hindi : scoops@glamsham.com:

"Maybe it was inevitable. Almost every major English channel in the country is now telecast in national language Hindi.

Channels like Discovery and Cartoon Network have greatly benefited after starting their Hindi broadcasts.

And from Monday, AXN too has introduced a dual feed in Hindi and English from 8 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Premiering with the hugely popular 'Ripley's Believe It or Not', this initiative will gradually be expanded to include some of the channel's highest rated shows. "

I&B Minister condemns use of 'administrative Hindi' : HindustanTimes.com
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Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday deprecated the use of "administrative Hindi" saying it was a stumbling block in the popularity of the language.

"Administrative Hindi makes the language difficult by using less understood words and thereby affects communication in Hindi which is otherwise smooth and easy," Prasad said while releasing the reference manual India 2004 in English and its Hindi edition Bharat 2004 brought out by the research, reference and training division and published by the Publications Division.

Prasad made these comments as he was irked over the Hindi nomenclature of the research, reference and training division.
[In this connection, he said the Hindi word for research ('gaveshna') in 'Research, Reference and Training Division' was too complex for the common man to understand and a simpler word like 'shodh' could be used.]
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Business Standard .. Newspaper sales up 24% in 2002-03
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The present report contains an analysis for 15 months from January 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003. Among the multi-edition dailies, Dainik Bhaskar, publishing in Hindi, has the largest circulation of 1.71 million copies, followed by Times of India with 1.39 million copies.

For single-edition dailies, Hindustan Times has a circulation of 1.11 million copies, while The Hindu is second with 922,407 copies.
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Business Standard .. TV18 to start Hindi business news channels

Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), co-promoter of the English business news channel, CNBC India, will launch its 24-hour Hindi business news channel in the next financial year.

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With the launch of the Hindi business channel, TV18 is eyeing a 30 per cent growth in its sales revenue.
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Prajant's Xanga Site

For those not in the know, that says "Hindi!"

CIOL : News : Adobe's Hindi version, two months away:

"BANGALORE: Software maker, Adobe will be releasing the Hindi version of its software applications in the next couple of months. 'It is beyond the conceptualization stage and is almost in the releasing stage. In another couple of months you should see us releasing the Hindi version,' said Bruce Chizen, President and CEO of Adobe Systems Inc."

पीटीआई वेबसाइट का उद्घाटन

नयी दिल्ली, 27 सितंबर : भाषा : देश की प्रतिष्ठित संवाद समिति प्रेस ट्रस्ट आफ इंडिया ने आज अपने अंग्रेजी और हिंदी के आनलाइन डिलीवरी सिस्टम : ओडीएस : का उद्घाटन किया और इसके साथ ही पीटीआई अंग्रेजी और पीटीआई भाषा तथा पीटीआई फोटो सेवा इंटरनेट पर उपलब्ध हो गयीं।

पीटीआई के महाप्रबंधक और मुख्य संपादक एम के राजदान ने यहां पीटीआई मुख्यालय में आयोजित एक समारोह में इस वेबसाइट का उद्घाटन किया।

अब पीटीआई की सभी सेवाएं डब्ल्यू डब्ल्यू डब्ल्यू.पीटीआईन्यूज.काम पर उपलब्ध होंगी।

इस अवसर पर पीटीआई के अध्यक्ष एम पी वीरेन्द्र कुमार ने अपने संदेश में कहा कि संवाद समिति की अपनी वेबसाइट चालू होना पीटीआई के तकनीकी उन्नयन में एक और मील का पत्थर साबित हो रहा है।

भाषा - पीटीआई

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Microsoft to set up lab for promoting Hindi:

"Chandigarh: To promote the use of Hindi in computer applications, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd would set up a Research and Development (R&D) laboratory at Kurukshetra University.

Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala assured state government's assistance to Microsoft and suggested that while developing Hindi software, care should be taken to use such words which would be easy to understand and simple to write.

Appreciating the initiative taken by the state to promote the use of Hindi in computer application, Rajiv Kaul, MD Microsoft India, sought the cooperation of Haryana government in undertaking research and development in this area.

Microsoft had already made investment in developing software for Hindi, Kaul said adding it would be necessary to set up a Hindi laboratory in Haryana for further R&D."

A socio-political commentary on Hindi
(Tehelka.com)

" Take a Hindiwallah who insists on his right to use Hindi. Once I was at a film symposium and there were people from both North and South India. The language they were speaking was a kind of mix of Hindi and English. And we were rubbing along with some understanding and some loss. Then one of the local Hindi patrakars stood up and began to make a speech about how his rights were being denied and so on. He wanted to speak in Hindi and his entire expectation was that he would be denied that right; he would be told: you can't because there are people present from elsewhere. As it happened, I was chairing that session and I said: please speak in Hindi. He had nothing to say and kept quiet after that. All he wished to do was to insist on his right to speak in Hindi. So there is a further problem of what you are going to say in the language once it is granted to you. That problem has not been addressed simply because the Hindiwallah has invented an enemy who holds him back. He is always shadow-fighting with this guy who has denied him the right to speak."

यह टिप्पणी इलॅक्ट्रानिक माध्यमों के सम्बन्ध में और भी जायज़ है। कोई किसी को हिन्दी का इस्तेमाल करने से रोक नहीं रहा, आपकी जैसे इच्छा हो वैसे लेखन और पाठन कर सकते हैं। टी वी पर तो हिन्दी के चॅनलों ने बाज़ी मार ही ली है, अब बारी है जाल की।

Oxford Chacha's mast chaap
(The Times of India)

"'Chacha's mast chaap made me very positive about desh as I gave my naam into the videshi nivas'. Cross my heart, that's English as the modern linguistic 'natak' goes, even though it may not be quite the language Shakespeare used and recognised.

The Oxford Dictionary of English's updated 353,000-word listing, published on Thursday incorporates a further 37 Indian imports and a huge number of West Indian pronounciation-blunders into the world's fastest-growing, most widely-spoken tongue.

From today, it's fine for Indians to not know the English equivalent of chit-fund, udyog, murgh, history-sheeter and chawal.

'Hell, why should they,' laughs British Asian linguistics student Ramesh Panwal. 'Don't find out what a chowki is called in English - it is English. Dhoti is English. So is vaid, tal, namak, palak and so on'."

Business Standard .. Angrezi nahin, Hindi chalega:
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NDTV Media’s Nayak, however, feels that a comparison between English and Hindi news channels is odious. “It’s like comparing apples with oranges. Do you ever compare HBO with Zee Cinema,” he asks.

Besides, he feels that language makes all the difference as the television market for the two languages are distinct. Unequal comparisons notwithstading, the question is: is there a market for English news channels in India?

TV Today’s Krishnan thinks so. “There’s a large English-speaking segment that is keen to update itself on world affairs,” he says.

However, media planners say that despite the tall claims made by broadcasting companies about the market size of English news viewers, the two new entrants have performed below expectations. They even point out the reasons for the poor show.

For starters, media independent Carat India’s chief executive officer Sulina Menon says, Hindi news channels offer high production quality which hasn’t allowed viewers to shift to English news.

“We notice that even high net worth individuals in the socio-economic category A watch these news channels,” says Menon. Besides, within Hindi, there are at least five channels to choose from, she adds.
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English Hindi Dictionary - Unicode Display:

"This online interface to English Hindi dictionary for Unicode display is based on the dictionaries in ISCII made available under GPL License by the LTRC Group of IIIT Hyderabad. "

Borrowed words and pronunciation:
By Rajeev Srinivasan (rediff.com)

"For those of us who are challenged in Arabic and Persian, like me, there may be some hope: I read recently of an Urdu-Hindi dictionary. I hope Hindis use this to replace Arabic/Persian words with perfectly good Sanskrit-derived ones, which we poor Southerners can also understand. For instance, I think prem would be a fine substitute for ishq. After glancing at Hindi film posters for years, I still have no idea what qayamat means. I should buy that dictionary."