Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 Dear gurubhais and gurubehens Jai Gurudev! I have a suggestion. SatGuruji was always very keen to revive interest in our Great country, culture and religion. He wanted to restore our own pride in ourselves and our land. If that is the case, then why don't we develop at least a website in Hindi, a great language which is spoken by majority of Gurubhais and Gurubehens and which is very close to the Greatest Spiritual Language ever - Sanskrit. Moreover, Hindi is also our National Language and we should be very proud of it. Why are we so shy of using our own language? Why do we have to always use the language of the British who tortured and plundered our Beloved Motherland for nearly 200 years? It is ok that to let the whole world know about SatGuruji's message, we should have a website in the English language. But why are we hesitating to create an equally large and well-developed website in Hindi? This will have the great benefit of increasing and showing our pride in our own culture and language. Moreover, many Gurubhais and Gurubehens on this list are not so comfortable with English anyway, as is evident from the messages that are posted. Just imagine the tremendous benefit to them in having a comprehensive website in Hindi, even more extensive and up-to-date than the English website. Also, computers and internet are now spreading to all the villages and towns of India. The villagers should also be made aware of SatGuruji's message and the only way is to have a website in Hindi which they can understand. Why are we conspiring to promote the language of our former rulers? Are we true sons and daughters of Mother India and true imbibers of SatGuruji's spirit? He created magazines in both English and Hindi. Similarly there should also be a website in Hindi. Practically speaking, the Susha Hindi fonts are very easy to use to create a website in Hindi and are available for downloading on several websites. I invite other Gurubhai's and Gurubehen's suggestions on this important issue which we must not neglect. Jai Gurudev! Jai Bharat Mata! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 JAI GURUDEV Dear CZ (I wish, I knew your name)... > then why don't we develop at least a website in Hindi A great suggestion. Yes, this can be done. Internet Explorer supports embedded fonts, but not Netscape. In April, we had created a website at http://www20.brinkster.com/sadhak. This site can easily be modified to display Hindi content. But the main problem, here, is content. > Practically speaking, the Susha Hindi fonts are very easy to use to > create a website in Hindi and are available for downloading on > several websites. Two years ago, PC Quest had distributed Susha fonts and I tried to create a hindi website using them. But, the result was not so impressive. Maybe the author has improved them. Where can I find them? Sincerely, Ashish Marathe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 English website needs to be there along with hindi website because lot of people don't understand hindi eg south indians and foreigners. On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Ashish Marathe wrote: > JAI GURUDEV > Dear CZ (I wish, I knew your name)... > > > then why don't we develop at least a website in Hindi > > A great suggestion. Yes, this can be done. Internet Explorer supports > embedded fonts, but not Netscape. In April, we had created a website > at http://www20.brinkster.com/sadhak. This site can easily be > modified to display Hindi content. But the main problem, here, is > content. > > > Practically speaking, the Susha Hindi fonts are very easy to use to > > create a website in Hindi and are available for downloading on > > several websites. > > Two years ago, PC Quest had distributed Susha fonts and I tried to > create a hindi website using them. But, the result was not so > impressive. Maybe the author has improved them. Where can I find > them? > > Sincerely, > > Ashish Marathe > > > Jay Gurudev > > > > > > Your use of is subject to > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 JAI GURUDEV Dear Anurag, > English website needs to be there along with hindi website > because lot of people don't understand hindi eg south indians > and foreigners. No problem. They can co-exist. Ashish Marathe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 15, 2001 Report Share Posted June 15, 2001 Jai Gurudev! Dear Ashish, The Susha Hindi font can be downloaded and installed from the following website: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/9988/index.htm This website not only allows one to download the font, but they have very nice and easy instructions to learn the keyboard layout. I learnt the layout in 3 hours time since I already was familiar with the English typing. Moreover, this site also gives instructions on how Web pages can be created using this font. As for the content problem, that is easily solved. We just need to translate whatever is there currently on the English website into Hindi. That would be more than enough for a start. We can add more content as time goes on. I also have an idea that we can add some extracts from SatGuruji's numerous Hindi books along with a picture of the Book cover on the Hindi website to serve as a promotion for the Hindi books which will be of great help to our Hindi readers. Also, I don't know if this is feasible or not, but it would be nice if the Hindi website had a good and neat web address rather than using a free web address. But this will depend on feasibility. Hope this information helps. Sincerely, Aman , "Ashish Marathe" <nikhilashish> wrote: > JAI GURUDEV > Dear CZ (I wish, I knew your name)... > > > then why don't we develop at least a website in Hindi > > A great suggestion. Yes, this can be done. Internet Explorer supports > embedded fonts, but not Netscape. In April, we had created a website > at http://www20.brinkster.com/sadhak. This site can easily be > modified to display Hindi content. But the main problem, here, is > content. > > > Practically speaking, the Susha Hindi fonts are very easy to use to > > create a website in Hindi and are available for downloading on > > several websites. > > Two years ago, PC Quest had distributed Susha fonts and I tried to > create a hindi website using them. But, the result was not so > impressive. Maybe the author has improved them. Where can I find > them? > > Sincerely, > > Ashish Marathe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 15, 2001 Report Share Posted June 15, 2001 JAI GURUDEV Dear Aman, First, a request to all members. Please, while replying a message, do not quote the whole message. Delete what is not directly related to your reply. > The Susha Hindi font can be downloaded and installed from the > following website: > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/9988/index.htm Thanks. I got the font. > As for the content problem, that is easily solved. We just need to > translate whatever is there currently on the English website into > Hindi. I would need volunteers to translate and type in Hindi. Would you help? > Also, I don't know if this is feasible or not, but it would be nice > if the Hindi website had a good and neat web address rather than > using a free web address. But this will depend on feasibility. Once the website is big enough we may switch to a commercial service. This may cost upto $300 a year. For more details about commercial webhosts, visit www.hostwhois.com. Thanks and have a nice day. Ashish Marathe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2001 Report Share Posted June 16, 2001 Jai Gurudev! Dear Ashish, > >We just need to translate whatever is there currently on the English website into > > Hindi. > > I would need volunteers to translate and type in Hindi. Would you > help? > I am more than willing to help with the translation, since I am free until June 29. But you will have to tell me what to translate first so that we can proceed in some order and not overlap etc. Also, let's get the basic info done first and then proceed to finer and finer details. Take care, Aman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2001 Report Share Posted June 16, 2001 JAI GURUDEV Dear Aman, > But you will have to tell me what to translate first > so that we can proceed in some order and not overlap etc. > Also, let's get the basic info done first and then proceed to > finer and finer details. Simple. Close your eyes, imagine Guruji standing in front of you and pick the first thing that comes in your mind. Let this group know about it and start working. Meanwhile, I'll create the engine for the hindi website. Thanks and have a nice day. Ashish... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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