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 SARAI Hindi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Hindi that we have inherited is the “Hindi” that is taught in the schools and colleges, given shape to by the Herculean efforts of its ideologues and mindlessly enforced by the postcolonial state.
If one takes his own narrative seriously, the history of the language is the history of a deep schism where the name itself has acquired an overlay of meanings that will prevent any easy acceptance by the Muslims, for instance, as their language.
The use of the more racy mixes of Hindi, Urdu and English that one comes across on television channels may cause some anxiety to some amongst us but it may also be seen as the symptom of the changing times where “Hindi” is under tremendous pressure to change.
www.sarai.net /language/popularculture/essays/adiyta.htm   (3771 words)

  
 Newswatch India » News business thrives in India
India’s mounting obsession with news is fueled, media commentators say, by a new climate of political flux and by the economic transformation of the past decade.
Once the channel, yet to be named, is up and running, he said, they hope to raise further revenue by selling packages of news to foreign cable channels, catering to the Indian expatriate population in the United States, Britain, South Africa and the Gulf.
Sardesai conceded that because television news in India is such a young industry, many of the reporters thrust into prominence lack experience, but he said the trade-off was the “energy” visible in the CNBC newsroom.
www.newswatch.in /?p=95   (1928 words)

  
 Domain En India Language Registration
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 Persian, Urdu, English, or Arabic language in Pakistan?
Linguistically, Arabic is a Semitic language unrelated to the Indo-Iranian languages of Pakistan.
This language is not the mother-tongue of any ethnic group of Pakistan thus eliminating the cultural domination of an ethnic group and the resentment among other ethnic groups because of it.
Persian was the court language and the language of the educated and even till the early 19th century in far Bengal, the Hindu intelligentsia wrote and used Persian and not Urdu.
www.geocities.com /paklanguage/opinion.html   (12743 words)

  
 BabyCenter | Readers' Comments - How can we raise a bilingual child?
My mother says she cannot pinpoint exactly when I began speaking fluent English, but by the time I started school I was at the very least on par with my classmates in English ability, and by age seven or eight, I was at the head of my class in most subjects (especially "verbal ones", i.e.
While she speaks to me in English almost 100% of the time, she knows many many Greek words, understands most of what I tell her in Greek, and she actually does use a few Greek words regularly.
I live in Puerto Rico, where the primary language is Spanish, but I have a lot of friends who live in the United States and are married to English-only speakers.
www.babycenter.com /comments/1225939?i=40   (1989 words)

  
 Language in India
Jennifer M. Bayer, Ph.D. Television is important for the socio-economic transformation of the country; language is the conduit between the two; and therefore, it is significant to study its impact as a means of a futuristic trend set to guide language managementin India.
Television which is a different type of leisure activity has a passive audience, and unlike the internet, which is interactive, is bound to make its impact on language use.
While the process of shift in language is occurring due to reasons such as migration from the rural to the urban, and language contact of the rural on the borders of the urban, the role of television is bound to play a significant role in linguistic change.
www.languageinindia.com /jan2005/bayertv1.html   (2876 words)

  
 10 tips to improve the way you speak English
All you need to do is train yourself to speak English as comfortably and perfectly as you speak your mother tongue.
When you are watching television, observe the mouth movements of the speakers.
Make a list of frequently used words that you find difficult to pronounce and ask someone who speaks the language well to pronounce them for you.
in.rediff.com /getahead/2005/sep/02accent.htm   (722 words)

  
 Janmat TV - India's First VIEWS Channel
The percentage of households with televisions was approximately 60% in fiscal 2004.
In addition to its national channels in Hindi and English, Doordarshan broadcasts several regional language channels that are broadcast in particular regions of the country.
In the case of pay channels, the cable operators receive monthly fees from subscribers, which are shared with the broadcaster based on the number of subscribers declared by the cable operators.
www.janmat.tv /sectoral.html   (714 words)

  
 Layalina Productions | Press Review II.17
Television stations are split between Israeli channels that "see the offensive against Hezbollah as a fight against the spread of Shiite radicals aimed at destroying Israel" and Arab channels that emphasize civilian deaths and "largely describe the fighting as an Israeli adventure."
It is the responsibility of the channels to know the rules if they want to air their programs to the country." Bhandari says the rule is universal and applies to all foreign channels.
India 's Supreme Court requested that Coca-Cola reveal its secret recipe, guarded for the past 120 years, so that "allegations of high pesticide levels could be verified with further tests." Coca-Cola has been granted a month to comply with regulations.
www.layalina.tv /press/PR_II.17.asp   (3891 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com's Digital Edge - The Direct & Digital Imperative
Among the telcos in India, MTNL and BSNL are most prepared to offer these services and have the last mile infrastructure to deliver video content to consumer homes.
General entertainment channels are likely to bring in a greater number of adventure and crime shows, as they have been generating consistent TRPs.
English language channels will need to try and increase the 360 degree experience they provide if they are to compete with growing viewing consumption from other genres like news.
www.indiantelevision.com /ye2005/forward_yearender05.htm   (2246 words)

  
 Media - Satellite Television - Worldpress.org
Chinese state television CCTV claims to reach 84 percent of the population, with the number of regular viewers exceeding 900 million.
Western influence on television should not be underestimated, but it is not as saturating as the proponents of cultural imperialism believe—and while there may be many American soaps filling in the dead times in the afternoon, they are not, in general, the most popular programs.
The most profitable areas of television content for media organizations intent on investing in the developing world are films, soaps, sports, and children’s programs; these transcend barriers of culture and language, unlike news and current affairs, which demand knowledge of local politics and are more likely to be subject to state control.
www.worldpress.org /Europe/947.cfm   (3403 words)

  
 TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP): Moving images moving people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The channels were simply dishing out shows after shows and there was a sort of a sameness to all the channels.
It shows how satellite television at the beginning of the 1990s carried mostly English language programming originating from western sources, but as the decade drew to a close, that changed completely.
The staid state channels are scrambling to emulate the style of Music Television, with sometimes amusing results.
www.tveap.org /feat/0202mj.htm   (1191 words)

  
 LANGUAGE NEWS LANGUAGES NEWS | HavenWorks.com/language news ;-)
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SIL.org - "The purpose of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is to work with language communities worldwide to facilitate language-based development through research, translation, and literacy.
www.havenworks.com /language   (2833 words)

  
 J-List side blog: The hierarchy of language in Japan, trouble for "unhurried education" and, is my wife a Desperate ...
While television personalities like Hikaru Utada or Yu Hayami who can speak English fluently get a lot of "wow points" with fans, there seems to be a hierarchy at work, with Japanese bilingual in languages other than English getting more respect.
Recently retired soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata was known for wowing fans by appearing on Italian TV and speaking the language fluently, which immediately put him at the top of the worldwide pantheon of Japanese athletes.
American television studios have found a great market for their products in Japan, with hit shows like 24, Prison Break and CSI: Miami scoring big with viewers, who watch them on pay satellite channels or NHK, or rent them one disc at a time at the local rental shop.
www.peterpayne.net /2006/09/hierarchy-of-language-in-japan-trouble.html   (1685 words)

  
 Yale UCS - Internship Opportunities - Yale College Programs - Bulldogs in Singapore Internship Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
All opportunities are listed in the Jobs tab for the specific program.
HBO Asia is the television arm of HBO Pacific Partners, a joint venture between Time Warner, Paramount Films, Universal Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Travel: As part of the research, the intern will be expected to travel to India to interview senior staff of a number of key subscription pay television companies.
www.yale.edu /career/students/intern/sing_listings.html   (1236 words)

  
 Cable TV Talk - DirecTV adds AASTHA Television Channel
AASTHA Television Channel is now available on DIRECTV channel 2005 on an a la carte basis for $14.99 per month.
AASTHA Television Channel of the Mumbai headquartered AASTHA Broadcasting Network Limited -- a Mumbai (Bombay) Stock Exchange Listed public company is India's No. 1 Socio-Spiritual-Cultural Network.
AASTHA is the world's first 24x7 satellite television network broadcasting India's rich socio-spiritual-cultural heritage and currently reaches over 20 million households with viewership in excess of 100 million.
www.cabletvtalk.com /showthread.php?t=1759   (768 words)

  
 DIRECTV® WorldDirect™ International programming service - Filipino, South Asian, Vietnamese, Italian, Chinese, and ...
This 24/7 general entertainment channel is currently the number one station in the Philippines.
This 24/7 channel broadcast in Gujarati airs a wide variety of programming with serials, news, feature films, music programs, children's programming, educational and special programs during festivals specific to the region of Gujarat in Western India.
DIRECTV is the innovative provider of Spanish and English television entertainment that brings families together.
www.solidsignal.com /dtv/dtv_worlddirect.asp   (953 words)

  
 MTV at 25: How 'Music Television' Changed Its Tune With the Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
MTV was one of the first specialized channels on American television.
For example, MTV Desi brings music and culture from India to people of Indian ancestry in the United States.
But such issues are probably deeper than most people want to think of when they turn on the television.
www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2006-08-20-voa3.cfm   (1312 words)

  
 The Unabomber's Manifesto
We attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that that society requires people to live under conditions radically different from those under which the human race evolved and to behave in ways that conflict with the patterns of behavior that the human race developed while living under the earlier conditions.
Opportunities tend to be those that the system provides, the opportunities must be exploited in accord with the rules and regulations [13], and techniques prescribed by experts must be followed if there is to be a chance of success.
Many primitive peoples, when they don't have work to do, are quite content to sit for hours at a time doing nothing at all, because they are at peace with themselves and their world.
www.thecourier.com /manifest.htm   (21201 words)

  
 The Global Media Giants
In short, the overwhelming majority (in revenue terms) of the world's film production, TV show production, cable channel ownership, cable and satellite system ownership, book publishing, magazine publishing and music production is provided by these 50 or so firms, and the first nine firms thoroughly dominate many of these sectors.
CNN International, a subsidiary of CNN, is also established as the premier global television news channel, beamed via ten satellites to over 200 nations and 90 million subscribers by 1994, a 27 percent increase over 1993.
Now these channels will be redeployed to better utilize each other's resources, with plans being drawn up to develop several more global cable channels to take advantage of the world's largest film, television and cartoon libraries.
www.fair.org /index.php?page=1406   (4967 words)

  
 AListReview - Top blogger thoughts and ideas
Fimoculous' Rex Sorgatz lists 30 blogs that he reads and loves, but aren't part of the Technorati top 100.
With the end of the year being the perfect time to clean out the old and bring in the new, it is time to suggest some additions to the A-List, blogs that you think are great, read all the time, and want to see covered.
Just leave a comment with your entry - On New Year's Day I'll report on the blogs that were on my list in 2006, which are being dropped and why, and the new blogs I am adding to my list.
www.alistreview.com   (1900 words)

  
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 DAWN - Front Page; January 13, 2003
NEW DELHI, Jan 12: India, blatantly ignoring worldwide calls to improve relations with Pakistan, including a strongly-worded advice by the United States last week, has barred a visit of Punjabi writers...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 12: American Pakistani community was deeply disappointed that despite persistent efforts by the government and the community, Pakistan’s name was not removed from the list of states whose...
DHAKA, Jan 12: More freezing weather has been forecast for northern India and Bangladesh, where over 700 people have died in a month-long cold spell, officials said on Sunday....
www.dawn.com /2003/01/13/index.htm   (413 words)

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