Guest guest Posted November 5, 2001 Report Share Posted November 5, 2001 Dear List Members, Does anybody know of reliable documents, articles, research and the like about the impact of rapid Information Technology development in India and the sociocultural changes in attitudes, lifestyle etc. ? I'd be very grateful for any hints - books, papers, websites. Thank you, Dorota Kolakowska University of Warsaw, Poland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2001 Report Share Posted November 6, 2001 IT has changed life in the South to a greater extent. Parents consider giving english education is a big gift to their kids. "Convent" schools, (privately funded) are on the rise. Many nowadays have an opportunity to travel abroad with an IT job - to Singapore, Malaya, Middle East, Europe (UK, Germany) & of course, to Amerikka. As a consequence, the effect of english on Indian languages is getting deeper. Most middle class students cannot understand a medieval or 19th century poem in their native language. As far as Tamil is concerned, there is a Tamil Virtual University (TVU) started by Tamil Nadu govt. Tamil letters being simple (only 12 vowels, 18 consonants) there is TSCII encoding, parallel to ASCII, and many e-lists run with this. Sangam poems are on the web. See The Project Madurai website, http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/ (named after Project Gutenberg). Look at some ancient works at: http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/pmfinish.html With the rise of english and IT in India, hopefully (most) Indian language documents will be available in a Roman script based transliteration. Besides its simplicity, and universal use, computers make its availability possible at low cost. Sanskrit was written in many scripts; Many texts were preserved and written in Southern grantha. Devanagari's consonant-clusters make it complicated. Roman script is easy, and provides a way out. With the downturn in IT jobs, and the growth at which IT training centers open in India, there will be plenty of Indian folks ready and enthused to prepare Indian language materials on the web. INDOLOGY, "Dorota Kolakowska" <rotka@P...> wrote: > Dear List Members, > > Does anybody know of reliable documents, articles, research > and the like about the impact of rapid Information Technology > development in India and > the sociocultural changes in attitudes, lifestyle etc. ? > I'd be very grateful for any hints - books, papers, websites. > > Thank you, > > Dorota Kolakowska > University of Warsaw, Poland > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2001 Report Share Posted November 7, 2001 > Does anybody know of reliable documents, articles, research and the like > about the impact of rapid Information Technology development in India and > the sociocultural changes in attitudes, lifestyle etc. ? > I'd be very grateful for any hints - books, papers, websites. > > Thank you, > > Dorota Kolakowska > University of Warsaw, Poland In terms of sheer economics, Indians are more affluent now - both home and abroad. In the US there were reports in the Wall St Journal of Indians being the richest ethnic community in the country. Needless to say software engineers are wooed by all the top companies (atleast used to be, before the recent recession) which pay them top dollar. There've been a lot of entreprenuerial successes too especially in the silicon valley. In India too it has had its effect. IT professionals are generally very well paid - with so many US multinationals setting up shop in India, it has forced even local companies to keep up with the market rate or risk labour turnover. So there's more spending - eating out etc In Bangalore it has become very profitable for house owners to rent part of their houses to IT engineers - two or three of them take up a house and do not mind paying high rents. In Bangalore I used to live in what was previously a nursing home - the owners thought it was more profitable to let out the rooms to software engineers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2001 Report Share Posted November 8, 2001 On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 naga_ganesan@h... wrote: >> With the rise of english and IT in India, hopefully (most) Indian >> language documents will be available in a Roman script based >> transliteration. Besides its simplicity, and universal use, >> computers make its availability possible at low cost. In INDOLOGY, Rohan Oberoi <ro11@c...> wrote: >That's an interesting issue. I do agree with you that there would be >several advantages to this approach, but the fatal disadvantage is >that there does not appear to be a usable candidate for widespread >transliteration of Indian languages. What about ISO 15919, 'Transliteration of Devangari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters' that has just been published? See the Project Leader Dr. Anthony P. Stone's announcement in Indology @ Liverpool lsit. The problem with ISCII as far as Tamil is concerned, this changes the letter-order, and hence the sort-order, of Tamil. TolkAppiyam and NannUl give a unique order for Tamil letters which is followed in tamil dictonaries etc. It would be wrong to change that. Sanskrit text quotes in Indian studies publications from Western universities routinely use Roman script with diacriticals, and without diacritical marks, the Harvard-Kyoto convention works. The entire epic corpus is available in Roman via the web. Regards, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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