I guess I should stop being lazy and post more, but... I have motivation problems about some things... like recording my own life...
I've talked to some people about my project on the Bhaghavad Gita (a text from the god Krishna that has some of the basic doctrine of Hinduism) and other traditional Indian stories. I've gotten children's versions of the stories since they're shorter and... presumably easier to read... but I need to find the full version of the Bhaghavad Gita which is only about 18 pages... you would think you could find it online easily, but if you can it's all jumbled up and obnoxious and has a thousand different links to different pages...
Come on, people! I can find the Bible and the Koran and probably even the Torah online easily!
I will send you some pictures of the comic books I've gotten. (They actually sell quite a few comic books of their traditional stories in English. They also have a lot in Telugu, but let's just say... I'm not exactly fluent/semi-functiona/ semi-able-to-understand-anything-besides-words-like-'girl'-and-'there'-in-Telugu)
Everyone says "Madam" or "Ma'am" and "Sir" in respect. I also learned that often people call their elders "Auntie" and "Uncle." And yes--those are all said in English. Sailu, the assistant cook, is always like, "Thank you, Ma'am," and "No! Maaaa'am!"
So I saw one of our translator's "Auntie"s and "Uncle"s yesterday (not relatives, she just calls them that since they are her elders--when I asked what their names were she said she didn't remember). They are a really ancient little couple (in their 80's). Uncle was happy to lecture about the Bhaghavid Gita and read verses about it and every once in a while turn to me to say in English: "Krishna is the Supreme Being. I am the Creator and the Destroyer. I have come to destroy the bad to protect the good," etc., etc. It was fun to talk to them, but I only got about ten minutes of usable information in the 40 minutes I was there.
She's supposed to help me find some popular Telugu movies today, but we'll see if that actually happens. We went last night and it was closed, and I went before with just the American students and bout some random cheap dvds, but I haven't watched them yet. I'm afraid they're gonna be not-so-good but it was only like a dollar so I risked it.
I've talked to some people about my project on the Bhaghavad Gita (a text from the god Krishna that has some of the basic doctrine of Hinduism) and other traditional Indian stories. I've gotten children's versions of the stories since they're shorter and... presumably easier to read... but I need to find the full version of the Bhaghavad Gita which is only about 18 pages... you would think you could find it online easily, but if you can it's all jumbled up and obnoxious and has a thousand different links to different pages...
Come on, people! I can find the Bible and the Koran and probably even the Torah online easily!
I will send you some pictures of the comic books I've gotten. (They actually sell quite a few comic books of their traditional stories in English. They also have a lot in Telugu, but let's just say... I'm not exactly fluent/semi-functiona/ semi-able-to-understand-anything-besides-words-like-'girl'-and-'there'-in-Telugu)
Everyone says "Madam" or "Ma'am" and "Sir" in respect. I also learned that often people call their elders "Auntie" and "Uncle." And yes--those are all said in English. Sailu, the assistant cook, is always like, "Thank you, Ma'am," and "No! Maaaa'am!"
So I saw one of our translator's "Auntie"s and "Uncle"s yesterday (not relatives, she just calls them that since they are her elders--when I asked what their names were she said she didn't remember). They are a really ancient little couple (in their 80's). Uncle was happy to lecture about the Bhaghavid Gita and read verses about it and every once in a while turn to me to say in English: "Krishna is the Supreme Being. I am the Creator and the Destroyer. I have come to destroy the bad to protect the good," etc., etc. It was fun to talk to them, but I only got about ten minutes of usable information in the 40 minutes I was there.
She's supposed to help me find some popular Telugu movies today, but we'll see if that actually happens. We went last night and it was closed, and I went before with just the American students and bout some random cheap dvds, but I haven't watched them yet. I'm afraid they're gonna be not-so-good but it was only like a dollar so I risked it.
A picture of Uncle's Ramayana copy.
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I have an app in my phone that has the concise text of the Bhagavad-gita. Would be only too happy to share :)
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