Preparing to teach beginners
Although there might be computers at the Bijawar high schools available for teachers to use (see here), we’re taking four laptops on which to help people learn. This move is partly for ease and portability, so that we can hold sessions at my grandmother’s house whenever people are free, and partly so that we have...
Hindi computing
In Bijawar, the language is Bundelkhandi (or Bundeli), a quasi-dialect of Hindi. The written languages, in Devanagari script, are exactly the same. The comparison, for example, between “English” as a concept and the English specifically spoken in California might be apt. I speak some Hindi, although not very well and not very fluently. I basically...
The place and the plan
For some time now, my family has wanted to start a computer education program in Bijawar, the small village in Madhya Pradesh, India, where my dad grew up. His mother – my grandmother – still spends most of her time there, although her children and their families all live elsewhere. According to the 2001 census,...