BodhgayaNews

Reading Hindi Newspapers

Melbourne, August 17, 2006, (Peter Friedlander). Learning to read Hindi newspapers is something which is very enjoyable to do, but takes a while to learn. Most people find they have to study for at least about a year or a year and a half of so before they know enough Hindi to be able to start reading papers.

Melbourne, February 2, 2007, (Peter Friedlander).
From the 25th July 2006 I and Anandini Dar made webcasts discussing current Hindi news stories and how their coverage differs from English versions of the stories on the the La Trobe University Student Radio SubFm. Those broadcasts are now longer available for download from SubFm. Students who register in Hindi 2B with La Trobe University or through Open Universities Australia will have them included in their study materials this year.

The stories which we covered were.

No.	Story
1	Jaswant says he'll name mole in PMO (Times of India/Navbharat Times 24 July) more
2	India Says No to New Conditions (Hindustan Times/Hindustan 27 July) more
3	Infosys rings Nasdaq bell (Times of India/Navbharat Times, 1 Aug) more
4	Ban on child labour from Oct 10 (DNA India/Dainik Bhaskar, 1 Aug) more
5	Pesticide cocktail in Coke, Pepsi brands, says study (Hindustan Times/Hindustan, 2 Aug) more
6	Submerged Surat desperate for relief (DNA India/Dainik Bhaskar, 10 Aug) more
7	Prez Kalam calls for 'national awakening' on terror (Hindustan Times / Hindustan / Navbharat Times / DNA India, 14 Aug) more
8.1	5 dead, 50 injured in bomb blast in ISKCON temple in Imphal (DNA India/Dainik Bhaskar, 14 Aug) more
8.2	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Hindustan Times/Hindustan, 9 Aug) more
9	Solar system to include 3 more planets (Hindustan Times/Hindustan, 16 Aug) more
10	Dutch fighter jets escort Mumbai bound US airliner (DNA India/Dainik Bhaskar, 23 Aug) more
11	Barmer Floods (Hindustan Times/Hindustan, 26/27 Aug) more
12	Quota Bill for Unaided Bodies (Hindustan Times/Hindustan, 30 Aug) more
13	Steve Irwin Dies (Hindustan Times/Hindustan / Navbharat Times/Dainik Bhaskar, 4 Sept) more
14	Vandemataram (Times of India/DNA India 6 Sep) and: Mission Admission in Australia Tomorrow (Navbharat Times 6 Sep) more
15	Malegaon Bomb (Hindustan Times / Hindustan 11 Sep) more
16	Space Walk (DNA India / Bhaskar 13 Sep) more [and a couple of filmi stories]
17	Horoscopes (DNA India / Navbharat Times / Jagran, 18th and 19th Sep) more
18	We Believed in Ourselves: Dravid (Times of India / Navbharat Times, 20 Sep) more
	[Mid semester break - no webcasts]
19	Inzamam and Hair (Times of India, Navbharat Times, Dainik Bhaskar, DNA India, 1 Oct) more
20	Dengue strikes PM's family (Hindustan Times, Hindustan 4 Oct) Tourist Season Knocking on Bodhaya's door (Dainik Jagran, 4 Oct) more
21	Korean Nuclear Tests (Hindustan Times/ Hindustan 10 Oct) Teachers Absent (Jagran 10 Oct) more

To view the Hindi text you will need to have unicode fonts enabled on your browser and PC and Mac users may need to install a suitable font to see the Hindi.

A Mac user (thanks Geoff) informs me that in the latest version of Office for the Mac you cannot see unicode Hindi text, but if you open the document with the simple built in word processor (Text Edit) the Hindi is visible.

You can also view the document with Safari on a Mac running system X, but not with Explorer it seems.

The fonts in the documents were converted to unicode using the brilliant Padma plug in extension by Nagarjuna Venna for Firefox and Thunderbird etc. See http://padma.mozdev.org/ for more details.