Showing posts with label interesting stuff... Show all posts
Showing posts with label interesting stuff... Show all posts

Saturday, 22 May 2010

earth tilt or changing direction of east?

March 22 2010

May 22 2010
(here the sun has risen high, is covered by clouds and appears to be a small spot)

Morining shot of rising sun from the same place of two months before and after.. it shows the tilting effect of earth..or is it the changing direction of East...Interesting isn't it ..

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Sunday, 28 December 2008

extending from the below blog..here, on indian languages ....

interestingly found an article in today's TOI on "Talking Native"

"
In a country where state boundaries have been drawn on a linguistic basis, it is no surprise that language regularly emerges as a bone of contention..."


"India, which has 22 scheduled languages (the number increased from 18, when Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added to the list in 2003), has also seen some shift in the language profile of populations. In the 1961 Census of India, 1,652 mother tongues were recorded. However, the 2001 census listed only 234 identifiable mother tongues — those which have 10,000 or more speakers each at an all-India level. "

'Hundreds of languages are in a similar state the world over. Reports from Unesco say over 50% of some 6,700 languages spoken today are in danger of disappearing. Experts estimate that 96% of the world’s languages are spoken by 4% of the population, and one language disappears on average every two weeks. "


some very interesting information about indian languages here

Though couldn't find much on how the states were so formed based on linguistic differences..