Dear fellow bloggers,

The given link offers a live discussion widget that can add indic discussion to any blogs or websites. Eager to hear any interesting uses you may find for it.

It uses google's transliteration facility for converting roman words into indic. And uses google (gmail) accounts to make sure that only the signed in users leave comments.

The link demonstrates a live discussion widget designed for edublogs. It is of particular importance to India, as it incorporates the google transliteration facility for typing indic scripts for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

So go ahead and add the live interaction element to your blogs.

A new and unique translation in Hindi of the ancient Indian Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद) has recently been published - the first volume of a four-part series. This covers the third, fourth and fifth mandalas of the sacred text and is generally dedicated to Agni - the sacred fire. This volume also includes the sacred "Gayatri Mantra". read more

I recently wrote a couple of posts on my blog on Google's transliteration tools (for 5 Indian languages - Hindi & the 4 languages of S. India), and the recent release of Google's English-Hindi-English automated translation tools which allow a 1-click translation of any web page in English into Hindi.

The implications for the use of the Internet in education in India (in the India not inhabited by the English-speaking population of the Metros) are huge, in my view. read more

Many have expressed an interest in the Hindi Ki Duniya - Pehle Kadam early learning programme designed for children for whom Hindi is not a spoken language (such as those in South India). This kit, authored by Chandrika Mathur of Rishi Valley, is no longer available from Scholastic. read more

" Hindi is the new Mandarin. Just as Mandarin is being learnt by youngsters all over the world to give them a strategic advantage with the emerging China, Hindi too is being sought after as the language of the other Asian tiger.

Some schools in the US have decided to introduce Hindi as a foreign language with staples like French, Spanish and German. read more

John Dewey is acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. He authored several books that are considered required reading for anyone aspiring to be in the field of education, especially as a teacher.

2 of his classics have now been translated in Hindi - Experience and Education, and The School and the Child. read more

I am homeschooling my son now 3. As any other child...he loves music too! i picked up a bunch of hindi song video DVD. i have ended up teaching him so much beyond music. London Bridge, Big Ben.....a song from Baghban. Toy Train from Shimla.....Parineeta. Everymoring he identifies the song with these titles and i am happy. As a child i loved the rhyme that appeared on DD ...Ek Titli, anek titliyan.....look for it on Utube.com....download it My son has loved this classic piece too!

Found this site with some classic hindi nursery rhymes for pre-school and young school children.

Also located this book called Shishu Kavita by Vinod Chandra Pandey 'Vinod' published in 2001 by Lokbharti Prakashan and Press (Allahabad). It has some very simple and nice 4-line poems for young children, which could be used by teachers in early Hindi classes in school too. read more

Hindi was my second language at school until 10th standard. However I know very little Hindi - for instance I cannot tell which word is masculine and which one is feminine. Also I have no real clue of various grammar rules. I barely passed my CBSE 10std Hindi exam, basically by memorizing and regurgitating answers my Hindi teacher used to write out for us. Thankfully I switched to French for my 11th and 12th and I think I enjoyed learning French a lot more, and ended up learning a lot more French in the two years compared to the 10 years of Hindi. read more