[Reader-list] Third post, actually

[Vivek Narayanan]

Ah-- I had forgotten that first past the post post was actually Neelima 
Chauhan on February 23.  Neelima's project is in Hindi to the 
deewan at sarai list, but she will also be posting simultaneous 
translations in English (see below).  There was also a small discussion 
on this post between Neelima and Taru Prakash, which you can access 
through the reader list archives.

Regards, Vivek

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Subject: 	[Reader-list] Research proposal ; An online study of Hindi 
blogosphere and hindi identity construction "Blogit Hindi jaati ka 
Linkitt Mann"
Date: 	Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:03:22 +0530
From: 	Neelima Chauhan <neelimasayshi at gmail.com>
To: 	reader-list at sarai.net



Following is translation intent of my proposal of a study of Hindi 
Identity Construction on Hindi Blogs.  under Independent Research 
Fellowship.   This research proposes to do an online study of Hindi 
hyper text on Hindi blogs.   It will be an attempt to make a critical 
appreciation of Language and style of hypertextual prose as it flows 
through the terminals of Hindi Bloggers. It will be an online study 
which will take in account the existing blogs, Hindi Networks, Blog 
Archives, Comments etc. Narratives from Hindi Online community will be 
collected. Objective is to identify the construction of Grand narrative 
of 'Hindi Jati' (Hindi nationality) as described in Hindi Literary 
Criticism especially that by Ram Vilas Sharma.   This construction of 
Hindi Jati with geographical space becoming meaningless (or less 
important atleast) will be explored.                 As research will be 
an online study therefore its progress will be available to all 
interested in real time. Findings of the work will be shared through a 
Weblog Publication and same will be presented at final workshop. Please 
note that original proposal in unicode hindi is available at 
http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_03.html   So far apart 
from proposal a brief study of names of Hindi blogs is also available at 
http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_17.html   while to 
newcomers here is a brief introduction to blogs 
http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_09.html     Do send 
your feedback
-- 
Neelima
zakir Husain Post Graduate College

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