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The Obama Speechwriter – Helping to Write History
The Obama Speechwriter – Helping to Write History
By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The job requires him to work unnoticed, even in plain view, so Jon Favreau settles into a wooden chair at a busy Starbucks in the center of Penn Quarter. Deadline looms, and he needs to write at least half a page by the end of the day. As the espresso machines whir, Favreau opens his laptop, calls up a document titled “rough draft of inaugural” and goes to work on the most anticipated speech of Barack Obama’s life.
During the campaign, the buzz-cut 27-year-old at the corner table helped write and edit some of the most memorable speeches of any recent presidential candidate. When Obama moves to the White House next month, Favreau will join his staff as the youngest person ever to be selected as chief speechwriter. He helps shape almost every word Obama says, yet the two men have formed a concert so harmonized that Favreau’s own voice disappears.
“He looks like he’s in college and everybody calls him Favs, so you’re like, ‘This guy can’t be for real, right?’ ” said Ben Rhodes, another Obama speechwriter. “But it doesn’t take long to realize that he’s totally synced up with Obama. . . . He has access to everything and everybody. There’s a lot weighing on his shoulders.”
Especially now, as Favreau and the rest of Obama’s young staffers begin a transition that extends far beyond new job titles. Three months ago, Favreau lived in a group house with six friends in Chicago, where he rarely shaved, never cooked and sometimes stayed up to play video games until early morning. Now, he has transformed into what one friend called a “Washington political force” — a minor celebrity with a down payment on a Dupont Circle condo, whose silly Facebook photos with a Hillary Rodham Clinton cutout created what passes for controversy in Obama’s so far drama-free transition.
Favreau believes he will transition well if he focuses exclusively on writing, which is why he has buried himself in the inaugural address. He moves while he writes to avoid becoming stale — from the Starbucks, to his windowless transition office, to his new, one-bedroom condo, where the only furniture in place is a blow-up mattress on the hardwood floor. He sometimes writes until 2 or 3 a.m., fueled by double espresso shots and Red Bull. When deadline nears, a speech consumes him until he works 16-hour days and forgets to call home, do his laundry or pay his bills. He calls it “crashing.”
Last month, Favreau met for an hour in Chicago with Obama and adviser David Axelrod, as is their habit before important speeches. Obama told him to make the inaugural address no longer than 15 or 20 minutes, and they agreed to theme it around, Favreau said, “this moment that we’re in, and the idea that America was founded on certain ideals that we need to take back.” Obama asked for a first draft by Thanksgiving. Favreau explained that he had planned a vacation and promised a draft by this week.
During his vacation, Favreau e-mailed notes to himself via BlackBerry while visiting friends in Manhattan and talked about structure at his family’s Thanksgiving dinner. He listened to recordings of past inaugural addresses and met with Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, to seek advice. One of Favreau’s assistants researched other periods in history when the United States faced crises; another interviewed historians such as David McCullough.
Still more daunting is the list of things Favreau can’t think about as he writes the inaugural. He went for a run to the Lincoln Memorial last month and stopped in his tracks when he imagined the mall packed with 3 million people listening to some of his words. A few weeks later, Favreau winced when Obama spokesman Bill Burton reminded him: “Dude, what you’re writing is going to be hung up in people’s living rooms!”
“If you start thinking about what’s at stake, it can get paralyzing,” Favreau said.
Obama sometimes jokes that Favreau is not so much a speechwriter as a mind reader. He carries Obama’s 1995 autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” with him almost everywhere and has memorized most of his famous keynote speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He has mastered Obama’s writing style — short, elegant sentences — and internalized his boss’s tendency toward reflection and ideological balance.
Favreau’s job is “to be like a baseball umpire,” one co-worker said, and perform his task so deftly that nobody notices him. He listens to Obama tell stories in his office and spins them into developed metaphors, rich in historical context. When Obama delivers a speech on the road, Favreau studies the recording and notes the points at which Obama departs from the text so he can refine the riffs and incorporate them next time.
In four years together, Obama and Favreau have perfected their writing process. Before most speeches, Obama meets with Favreau for an hour to explain what he wants to say. Favreau types notes on his laptop and takes a crack at the first draft. Obama edits and rewrites portions himself — he is the better writer, Favreau insists — and they usually work through final revisions together. If Favreau looks stressed, Obama sometimes reassures him: “Don’t worry. I’m a writer, too, and I know that sometimes the muse hits you and sometimes it doesn’t. We’ll figure it out together.”
“The president-elect understands that Jon is a rare talent. He knows what he’s got,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor, who also worked in the Senate office. “There’s a mutual respect and appreciation between them, and the president-elect trusts Jon’s instincts and ability. It’s a partnership.”
They stumbled upon it by accident in 2004, when Obama, just elected to the Senate, needed to hire a speechwriter. He brought Favreau, then 23, into the Senate dining room for an interview on his first day in office. They talked for 30 minutes about harmless topics such as family and baseball before Obama turned serious.
“So,” he said. “What’s your theory on speechwriting?”
Awkward silence. Favreau, just graduated from Holy Cross, had talked his way onto Sen. John F. Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2003 and had become a press assistant, arriving at the office at 3 a.m. to clip newspapers. The speech he had given as class valedictorian circulated around the staff, and Favreau eventually got a shot at speechwriting. He wrote well and rose to the top of the department, but there was never any time to formulate theories. Now, Favreau looked at Obama and went with his gut.
“A speech can broaden the circle of people who care about this stuff,” Favreau said. “How do you say to the average person that’s been hurting: ‘I hear you. I’m there. Even though you’ve been so disappointed and cynical about politics in the past, and with good reason, we can move in the right direction. Just give me a chance.’ ”
“I think this is going to work,” Obama said.
Favreau worked for more than two years in Obama’s Senate office before moving to Chicago to help with the presidential campaign. He hired speechwriters Rhodes and Adam Frankel — and, a year later, former Clinton speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz — and together they crafted the speeches Obama delivered on the night of each primary.
The writers could sometimes crank out a 1,500-word speech in one or two days, working in Obama’s Chicago headquarters almost until sunrise. Sometimes, it took Favreau and his team hours to conceptualize the opening few lines. They gathered in a tiny office and formed sentences out loud, each word mulled and debated, until suddenly — yes! — they could envision the whole speech.
“When we were on, we could finish each other’s thoughts,” Frankel said. “We knew where we were going next. We were in total alignment on those speeches.”
One Saturday night in March, Obama called Favreau and said he wanted to immediately deliver a speech about race. He dictated his unscripted thoughts to Favreau over the phone for 30 minutes — “It would have been a great speech right then,” Favreau said — and then asked him to clean it up and write a draft. Favreau put it together, and Obama spent two nights retooling before delivering the address in Philadelphia the following Tuesday.
“So,” Obama told Favreau afterward. “I think that worked.”
Favreau wrote a first draft of the Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, but his boss thought it lacked direction. Obama rewrote it, and it ended up almost 15 minutes too long. Favreau spent three days traveling across the country with Obama so they could trim the speech, editing until a few hours before Obama stepped to the lectern in front of more than 84,000 people in Denver.
The writers could sometimes crank out a 1,500-word speech in one or two days, working in Obama’s Chicago headquarters almost until sunrise. Sometimes, it took Favreau and his team hours to conceptualize the opening few lines. They gathered in a tiny office and formed sentences out loud, each word mulled and debated, until suddenly — yes! — they could envision the whole speech.
“When we were on, we could finish each other’s thoughts,” Frankel said. “We knew where we were going next. We were in total alignment on those speeches.”
One Saturday night in March, Obama called Favreau and said he wanted to immediately deliver a speech about race. He dictated his unscripted thoughts to Favreau over the phone for 30 minutes — “It would have been a great speech right then,” Favreau said — and then asked him to clean it up and write a draft. Favreau put it together, and Obama spent two nights retooling before delivering the address in Philadelphia the following Tuesday.
“So,” Obama told Favreau afterward. “I think that worked.”
Favreau wrote a first draft of the Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, but his boss thought it lacked direction. Obama rewrote it, and it ended up almost 15 minutes too long. Favreau spent three days traveling across the country with Obama so they could trim the speech, editing until a few hours before Obama stepped to the lectern in front of more than 84,000 people in Denver.
The writers could sometimes crank out a 1,500-word speech in one or two days, working in Obama’s Chicago headquarters almost until sunrise. Sometimes, it took Favreau and his team hours to conceptualize the opening few lines. They gathered in a tiny office and formed sentences out loud, each word mulled and debated, until suddenly — yes! — they could envision the whole speech.
“When we were on, we could finish each other’s thoughts,” Frankel said. “We knew where we were going next. We were in total alignment on those speeches.”
One Saturday night in March, Obama called Favreau and said he wanted to immediately deliver a speech about race. He dictated his unscripted thoughts to Favreau over the phone for 30 minutes — “It would have been a great speech right then,” Favreau said — and then asked him to clean it up and write a draft. Favreau put it together, and Obama spent two nights retooling before delivering the address in Philadelphia the following Tuesday.
“So,” Obama told Favreau afterward. “I think that worked.”
Favreau wrote a first draft of the Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, but his boss thought it lacked direction. Obama rewrote it, and it ended up almost 15 minutes too long. Favreau spent three days traveling across the country with Obama so they could trim the speech, editing until a few hours before Obama stepped to the lectern in front of more than 84,000 people in Denver.
For Election Day, Favreau wrote two speeches — one in case of a win and another for a loss. After Obama learned that he had won Pennsylvania and essentially secured the presidency, he called Favreau to make final word edits on the victory address. “Okay, this all sounds good,” Favreau said when Obama finished making his changes. “And hopefully we never have to think about that other one again.”
All told, Favreau spent more than 18 months on almost constant deadline, staying up until 5 a.m. during the financial crisis to craft speeches for the next day and waking up at 8 a.m. to obsess over the daily tracking polls, which he started calling “daily crack.”
When the pressure wore on Favreau, he unwound like a 27-year-old, sending prank e-mails to friends at the Obama offices or playing the video game Rock Band in the Lincoln Park group house he shared with six campaign staffers. He visited Axelrod’s office and sought advice. He called his best friend, Josh Porter, when he felt ready to break down.
“A few times he called at midnight, sounding just done,” Porter said. “He would be like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this anymore. I’m in over my head. I’m starting to freak out.’ ”
But there were also moments of euphoria, when Favreau would catch himself choking up while riding in the motorcade or rehearsing with Obama backstage. Before he entered Grant Park on election night, to stand in the VIP section with his parents and younger brother to hear Obama speak, Favreau sent a quick e-mail to Porter at 9:07 p.m. The subject line read: “Dude.”
“We won,” Favreau wrote. “Oh my God.”
Two weeks after the election, Favreau accepted a new job that essentially came with a new life. He moved back to Washington, hired a real estate agent, bought his first apartment and ordered furniture from Pottery Barn that sits unopened in nine boxes lined against his wall. He will need to buy more jackets and ties to replace his preferred outfit of jeans and a sweater. Friends joke that Favreau suddenly turned 40 this year — but he still shows flashes of 27.
At a party at his parents’ house over Thanksgiving vacation, he danced and posed awkwardly next to a cardboard cutout of Clinton. A buddy uploaded photos onto Facebook, reporters discovered them, and suddenly experts were debating Favreau’s maturity on television. Favreau called Clinton and Obama to apologize. They told him not to worry, but he still does.
How is this supposed to work, anyway? Do Favreau and the rest of Obama’s young staffers transform to meet the formalities of the White House, or does the White House change to accommodate them? For almost two years during the campaign, Favreau and his speechwriting staff came to work in jeans and communicated via instant messaging. When they needed to write, they crammed together into a closet-size room, feet on the table, downing energy drinks and ordering takeout late into the night.
“We were always informal — that’s Favs’s style,” said Rhodes, one of the speechwriters. “I don’t think he ever scheduled a meeting where we all sat down at a table and said, ‘Here’s what we have to do this week.’ And if he had, we probably would have laughed at him.”
But now Favreau and the other senior speechwriters are preparing to move into separate offices and expand their staff. Favreau expects to hire four or five more writers — including a few who focus on foreign policy — and he’s unsure how to manage them. “My biggest strength isn’t the organization thing,” he said. A few of the other speechwriters have volunteered to help train and direct new hires.
Obama’s speeches are likely to evolve, too. Some will focus more on policy, Favreau said, and a few dozen bureaucrats will want to parse each word. Andrei Cherny, a former White House speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, called Favreau after the election to congratulate him and then warned that, in the White House, “the scrutiny and the power is unlike anyplace else.”
“We know that we’re going to have to approach the White House our way and have some fun with it,” Favreau said, “because that kind of attitude is what made us successful.”
No matter how it goes, Favreau believes this will be his last job in politics — “anything else would be so anticlimactic,” he said. Someday, he wants to write in his own voice, for himself.
“Maybe I’ll write a screenplay, or maybe a fiction book based loosely on what all of this was like,” Favreau said. “You had a bunch of kids working on this campaign together, and it was such a mix of the serious and momentous and just the silly ways that we are. For people in my generation, it was an unbelievable way to grow up.”
Clustering for excellence
Clustering for excellence
R. KRISHNAMOORTHY for THE HINDU
The concept is aimed at enabling higher education institutions to put their facilities to optimum use and address the infrastructure and academic needs.
The idea of establishing clusters of advanced centres was mooted by the Kothari Commission as one of the possible means for extension of excellence from the centre to the periphery.
Taking the cue from the Western systems, the National Knowledge Commission has recommended that autonomous status be given to some clusters of colleges as part of restructuring undergraduate education. On its part, the University Grants Commission has been pursuing the project of clustering higher education institutions to put the facilities to optimum use and address the infrastructure and academic needs.
Against this backdrop, the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education is encouraging universities to form clusters and derive the benefits of mutual cooperation in the forms of sharing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in teaching-learning; opportunities for teachers to develop and offer new innovative credit courses thereby improving the standard of education in the members of the cluster; possibilities of opening up new areas of knowledge, promoting research and extension, institution of scholarships, and coming up with common research publications and newsletters.
Each cluster of voluntarily partnering colleges, as per the proposed system, should consist of a few well developed and established institutions and newly started self-financing colleges, under the regulation of the affiliating university. The cluster will have a shared vision based on the principles of equal status; collective decision-making; autonomy and accountability; and independence and interdependence.
According to a framework for cluster formation readied by the Bharathidasan University for consideration of the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education, the cluster of colleges shall progressively share existing facilities in partner colleges and undertake common ventures for promoting access, equity and quality of education. The concept note states that the government should facilitate setting up of clusters through liberal grants, and encourage government and government-aided colleges for introducing new programmes in addition to the aided programmes introduced in the clusters on a permanent basis.
The vital advantages of cluster formation listed in the concept note are opportunities for new and developing colleges to avail specialised resource persons working in the developed colleges; opportunities for students to register for courses in any other college of the cluster; and promotion of cross-cultural development.
The likely disadvantages are there could be reservations if sharing of resources is one-sided, and problems may arise in accommodating more students in one course from other institutions taking into consideration the size of the available classrooms or laboratories. The solution advocated to solve these problems is signing of agreements for sharing services at mutually agreed costs.
The most important advantage under the cluster system is the scope for developing cost-intensive infrastructure in constituent colleges of clusters through submitting joint project proposals. National funding agencies are eager to provide liberal funding for such proposals, the vice-chancellor of Bharathidasan University, M. Ponnavaikko, told a gathering of principals at a recent meeting.
With the objective of implementing the cluster concept from the next academic year, Bharathidasan University has already nominated coordinators at the district-level to generate the lists of programmes that could be pursued in each college under the CBCS by mid-January 2009.
MBA in media and entertainment
MBA in media and entertainment
The Indian media and entertainment industry is expected to grow at a 19 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) to reach an overall value of Rs. 1.15 trillion by 2012 from its present size of Rs. 513 billion, according to a report published by PWC for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
This represents a huge growth opportunity for highly qualified and trained professionals in this field.
Understanding this requirement, Manipal University has designed a programme to cater to this growing demand.
The two-year MBA in Media and Entertainment has specialisations in Film, Broadcasting, New and Interactive Media and Event Management. Admissions are now open for the January 2009 intake. Manipal University is offering this course in association with Whistling Woods International.
The first year of the programme will be conducted at the Manipal University Off-Campus in Bangalore, covering all general management subjects and media case studies.
Training
The second year will consist of hands-on training at the Whistling Woods International in Mumbai.
The course is new, exciting and truly industry-focussed, combining managerial tools and frameworks with an in-depth understanding of the creative processes that are involved in the media and entertainment industry.
The programme prepares the students to be well-rounded media professionals and opens up avenues for exciting and successful careers in one of the fastest growing sectors — the media and entertainment industry.
Upon graduation, the students can have a choice of careers in international and Indian production houses, news and entertainment channels and event management companies, functioning as either business/marketing managers or creative/production managers.
The last date to submit applications is December 22. The programme, which will commence from January 2009, is open to those who have completed any undergraduate degree.
For further details, log onto http://www.manipal.edu/me or call +91 97400 67213 or write to mbame@manipalu.com
One Laptop per child comes to India
One Laptop per child comes to India
New Delhi, Nov 18: Gifting India’s 110 million 6-to-12-year-olds a laptop each is the goal of a campaign launched in New Delhi this evening by a global group called ‘one laptop per child.’ ”For India, we are starting this programme from today,” OLPC India spokesman Satish Jha told journalists as he spelt out the campaign’s ‘Give One Get One’ sales pitch.
The idea, he said, was to let consumers pay $400– roughly Rs 20,000– and get a specially built– robust, rugged, dust proof, water proof, sun friendly– laptop while another is sent to a needy child.
The purpose was to give kids a machine that won’t stop working no matter someone spills coffee on it or drops it to the floor, he said.
”If you can’t get the child to the classroom, let the classroom go to him,” said Jha. ”At a very small cost, you can place an advanced classroom in the hands of every single child in India.
”We plan to distribute three million XOs in India in the first year of its operations and aim to reach all needy children in India over the next five years,” said Jha.
He said the laptop dubbed XO was developed by the founder of Media Lab, a department within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The ‘Give One Get One’ – G1G1 – programme put together by former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte was initiated in the US around September 2007.
XO combines the functionalities of a conventional PC or a laptop along with making it child friendly with a slew of applications designed to encourage interactive learning.
It consumes only 1 watt of power and works as a dual-boot system, running both open source and Microsoft applications with internet connectivity options, he said.
Certificate Course in Urudu
Certificate Course in Urudu
Nov 15 : Arjun Singh Centre for Distance and Open Learning, Jamia Millia Islamia University is conducting one year course in Urudu language through Hindi or English Medium.
Admissions are open throughout the year. Enrolment fee for those within India is Rs.100/-. No tuition fee is charged for the course.
Admission form and Prospectus can be had from the Honorary Director, Urudu Correspondence Course, Arjun Singh Centre for Distance & Open Learning, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 25, by sending a Self- addressed cover of size 24×12 cm with stamps worth Rs.10/- affixed on it.
Admission form can also be downloaded from http://www.jmi.nic.in/FHum/Uccform.pdf.
The filled up form has to be submitted with a Postal Order or a Bank Draft of Rs. 100/- (Rs. Hundred only) for Indian Nationals, addressed to ‘JAMIA MILLIA ISLAIMA, NEW DELHI’.
For more details, visit http://www.jmi.nic.in/cdol/Uccform.pdf
Only for Bangaloreans- A chance to Learn Sanskrit
Only for Bangaloreans- A chance to Learn Sanskrit
Namaste All,
This mail is meant only for those living in Bangalore-India.
If any of your friends are residing in bangalore, please forward this
to them too..
Here is an opportunity to learn to speak in Samskrit. IT Milans with
Samskrithabharathi is organizing Samskritha Sambhashana Shibira at
every nook and corner of bangalore on Nov 22nd and 23rd. The teachers
are from Samskrita Bharati, all well-trained and many of them teach
Samskrit in schools and colleges.
For registering, you may send a mail to samskrit4u@gmail. com or you
may contact the person coordinating the camps in your locality
http://speaksamskri t.blogspot. com/2008/ 10/contact. html
For further details, please read on.
Regards,
Sreejith.
____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _
Samskrita Bharati is an NGO, dedicated to reviving Samskritam as a
conversational language and thereby bringing about a social change.
Rather than speaking about Samskritam, Samskrita Bharati focuses on
speaking in Samskritam and using it as a medium of instruction to
unearth the treasure – the unsurpassed wisdom of Indian sages,
philosophers, scientists, and poets found in ancient Samskrita works
and treatises.
The Speak Samskritam movement took off in 1981. Till today more than
1.5 crores have been trained with 20 hours of course module in 10
days. More than 150 people are working as full-time workers for the
organisation.
Samskrit Sambhashan Workshops
http://speaksamskri t.blogspot. com/
Samskrita Bharati is conducting 2 full days Samskrit Sambhashan
Workshops(Samskrit speaking workshops) on Nov.22 (Saturday) and
Nov.23 (Sunday), 2008, considering the constraints of not being able
to attend 10 days course by professionals. .
Salient features:
1. Knowledge of Devanagari Script is not required.
2. Can learn Samskrit speaking in our neighborhood in just 2 days.
3. Families and neighbors attend and hence an opportunity to continue
it afterwards also.
4. Learning through games – learn while you play.
5. Learn while you eat also.
6. CD show during breaks.
7. Chart exhibition pertaining to Ancient Indian Contribution to
Science.
8. Exhibition of daily usage items with Samskrit names.
9. Book-stall for selling books/ CDs etc. in Samskrit.
10. On the spot registration for furthering the study (may be
correspondence etc.).
11. An opportunity to learn further (read and write) at neighborhood
if sufficient number of people (25 no.) are willing.
Learning Samskrita is as simple as saying A-U-M !
Kindly note:
Registration is first come, first serve basis.
Registration charges per person are – Rs. 200/- for adults and
Rs.100/- for children.
Limited 25 seats only.
Children can participate, if only parents participate.
Participants are expected to be present by 9.00AM on both days and are
required to be late in the evening.
Sanskrit learning sites
For learning Sanskrit language
Hi friends,
If you are interested to learn Sanskrit language please use the below mentioned links.
A Very good site for Text, songs, Vedeo to download and watch online:
http://sanskrit. sriaurobindoashr am.org.in/
saMprati vartaha Sruyamtaam
All India Radio’s daily news in Sanskrit can be listened from below link.
This would help in right pronunciation and increasing knowledge of spoken
sanskrit.
http://sanskritdocu ments.org/ sanskritnews. html
http://girvanavani. googlepages. com/newsheadline s
Antarjaale labhya ekameva Samskruta dinapatrikaa! !
http://sudharma. epapertoday. com
Site to see various Kavya of Sanskrit, Both for download and read online.
example: Raghu Vamsam, Kumarasambhavam, Abhijnana Sakuntalam, etc.
http://www.vedamu. org/Sankrit/ sankritmain. asp
http://www.sanskrit deepika.org
Many things related to Samskrit
http://opinion. currentsamachar. com/sanskritblog s.php
Learn Sanskrit through self study:
http://acharya. iitm.ac.in/ sanskrit/ tutor.html
Few valuable Sanskrit documents in different language:
http://sanskritdocu ments.org/ learning_ tools/learning_ tools.html
http://sanskritdocu ments.org/ news/
Distance education:
http://sanskrit. nic.in/dis. htm
distance education – samskrita-bharat
http://www.samskrit a-bharati. org/newsite/ index.php
Learn sanskrit – wikepedia
http://hi.wikibooks .org/wiki/ %E0%A4%A8% E0%A5%87% E0%A4%9F_ %E0%A4%AA% E0%A4%B0_ %E0%A4%B8% E0%A4%82% E0%A4%B8% E0%A5%8D% E0%A4%95% E0%A5%83% E0%A4%A4_ %E0%A4%AD% E0%A4%BE% E0%A4%B7% E0%A4%BE_ %E0%A4%B8% E0%A5%80% E0%A4%96% E0%A5%87% E0%A4%82
Many Good Audios (stroies) on Sanskrit:
http://www.umich. edu/~iinet/ csas/publication s/sanskrit/ audio.html
A Software on Sanskrit Grammar based on Panini’s Sutras
http://www.taralaba lu.org/panini/ greetings. htm
cd quality stuff (Many good Bhajana and Songs in Sanskrit)
http://www.hummaa. com/music/ justarrived. php?pg=ja& lg=7&lc=& ps=0&mhrdwk= 1&rand=0. 5933028437082346
Samskrit Document:
http://www.mywhatev er.com/sanskrit/ index.html
Sanskrit Translation Tools:
http://www.omkarana nda-ashram. org/Sanskrit/ Itranslt. html
Sanskrit in Computing:
http://bhashaindia. com/patrons/ Sanskrit/ computing. aspx
Learn Sanskrit Grammer:
http://www.warnemyr .com/skrgram/
Vedic Concordance – download
http://www.zinbun. kyoto-u.ac. jp/~mfujii/ tools.html# VedCon
Digital Library of India:
http://www.new. dli.ernet. in/
scanned Sanskrit books
http://sanskritdocu ments.org/ scannedbooks/ SanskritIISc. html
Links at hindu wisdom (Saying of Big Personality regarding Sanskrit)-
http://www.hinduwis dom.info/ Sanskrit. htm
A Vedic Concordance
http://www.dslo. unibo.it/ bloomsfield/ introeng. html
Sanskrit: The Mother of All Languages – Part I of III
http://www.thevedic foundation. org/valuable_ resources/ Sanskrit- The_Mother_ of_All_Languages _partI.htm
about paNiini
http://www-gap. dcs.st-and. ac.uk/~history/ Biographies/ Panini.html
Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence — NASA
http://www.vtweb. com/gosai/ science/sanskrit -nasa.html
A Practical Sanskrit Introductory
http://www.danam. co.uk/Sanskrit/ Sanskrit% 20Introductory/ Sanskrit% 20Introductory. html
The Paninian System of Sanskrit Grammar
http://www.sai. uni-heidelberg. de/~amishra/ index.html
sanskrit texts translated in english
http://www.sacred- texts.com/ hin/index. htm
upanishads, pa~ncadashi etc…
http://swami- krishnananda. org/index. html
Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy(bhagvadg iita transliterated &
translated)
http://www.dlshq. org/download/ download. htm
108 upanishads in sanskrit
http://www.gatewayf orindia.com/ upanishad/ upanishads. htm
can purchase (translated) upanishads
http://www.advaitaa shrama.org/ home.html
Learn step-by-step- Chitrapur Math
Here is an excellent source with pdf tutorials:
http://chitrapurmat h.net/sanskrit/ step-by-step. htm
dramas in sanskrit – types etc.
http://www.geocitie s.com/fisik_ 99/sankdram. htm
apte dictionary english to sanskrit
A very good site for those who want to know a sanskrit word for the given
english word.
follow the link.
http://www.sanskrit -lexicon. uni-koeln. de/aequery/ index.html
a link for all the sanskrit scanned books
http://www.new. dli.ernet. in/
Sanskrit Classics for Free Download
Free download of Sanskrit Literature live Veda, Vedanga, Upaveda,
Ayurveda,… .
http://is1.mum. edu/vedicreserve /table_qualities .htm
http://is1.mum. edu/vedicreserve /index_of_ vedic_literature .htm
http://cs.annauniv. edu/insight/ insight/chhandas /index.htm
http://www.ibiblio. org/sripedia/ ebooks/vdesikan/ rps/chitra. html
for Sanskrit – English Dictionary use this link
http://www.sanskrit -lexicon. uni-koeln. de/mwquery/ index.html
Complete works of Adi Shankara
http://www.sankara. iitk.ac.in/
Texts with english translations too
http://www.hinduism .co.za/
Rig-Veda: Sanskrit Version
http://www.sacred- texts.com/ hin/rvsan/ index.htm
Audio download links for Rig Veda
http://www.gatewayf orindia.com/ vedas/rigveda. html
The Paninian System of Sanskrit Grammar
http://www.sai. uni-heidelberg. de/~amishra/ lists/rules/ aaall_hk. html
Sanskrit songs
http://www.geetgang a.org/audio/ by/language/ sanskrit
http://www.purebhak ti.com
Review:Nyayashastra praveshika
http://living. oneindia. in/home-n- garden/reviews/ nyayashastraprav eshika.html
durga shapta shati
http://sanskrit. safire.com/ Sanskrit. html#Saptashati
http://gitapress. org/Download_ Hin_pdf.htm
Sanskrit is an amazingly rich language
http://www.hinduwis dom.info/ Sanskrit. htm
http://sanskrit. gde.to/all_ pdf/raamakrshhna .pdf
Sanskrit to learn Sanskrit…. ……… .
http://www.ukindia. com/zip/zsan01. htm
http://www.word2wor d.com/coursead. html#sanskrit
Few more Sanskrut urls (Links):
http://www.vedamu. org/Sankrit/ sankritmain. asp
http://www.ourkarna taka.com/ learnsanskrit/ sanskrit_ main.htm
http://aa2411s. aa.tufs.ac. jp/~tjun/ sktdic/
http://www.alkhemy. com/sanskrit/ dict/
http://www.sanskrit -sanscrito. com.ar/indexcopy .html
http://www.chitrapu rmath.net/ sanskrit/ sanskrit. asp
http://www.aczoom. com/itrans/ online/
http://sa.wikipedia .org/wiki/
http://acharya. iitm.ac.in/ sanskrit/ dictionary/
http://www.sanskrit academy.org/ About.htm
http://sanskrit. gde.to/learning_ tools/learning_ tools.html
http://www.baraha. com/
http://www.uni- koeln.de/ phil-fak/ indologie/ tamil/mwreport. html
http://www.samskrit abharati. org/
http://webapps. uni-koeln. de/tamil/
http://www.stutiman dal.com/
http://www.switzeri nstrument. com/Rajaji- Original/ Upanishads/ upanishad. htm
http://www.samskrta m.org/index. php
http://vedabase. net/en/
http://vedabase. net/sb/1/ 10/27/en
http://vedabase. net/cc/antya/ 8/32/en*http: //vedabase. net/sb/10/ 86/51/en
http://www.geocitie s.com/prashanth_ k_blr/Subhashita ni/index. html
http://www.sanskrit -sanscrito. com.ar/
http://www.sanskrit web.net/index. htm
http://www.omkarana nda-ashram. org/Sanskrit/ vedicaccents. htm
http://www.omkarana nda-ashram. org/Sanskrit/ Itranslt. html
Entries invited for Suvarna Keralam award for the best PhD thesis in Malayalam
Entries invited for Suvarna Keralam award for the best PhD thesis in Malayalam
Express News Service First Published : 01 Nov 2008 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
Kerala University has invited applications for the second edition of the Suvarna Keralam award for the best PhD thesis in Malayalam submitted during the last academic year. The award carried a sum of Rs 50,000 and a citation.
The award was instituted by American Malayalees Association `Bhashakkoru Dollar’ last year as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of Kerala Piravi. The award distribution will be held in January.
Malayalam PhD thesis submitted during the period from August 2007 to October 2008 will be considered for the award. Kerala University will publish the thesis as a book. Those who submit thesis for the award should also submit a consent letter giving the Kerala University the right to publish the thesis in book form. A CD of the thesis should also be submitted along with the thesis. Those who wish to be considered for the award should submit their thesis to the Public Relations Officer, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram – 695034 before November 25. For details,contact 0471-2305738.
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