homework post

लोग अंग्रजी सीख रहे हैं, और ओबामा के स्पीच इस्तेमाल करते हैं। एक किताब में, भाषणों का संकलन हैं। यह किताब बहुत-बहुत पोपुलर है, और बहुत जल्दी बिक रही है। किताब में, २००४-अब से स्पीचों का संकलन, उसके पास ९५ पेज है, और कीमत १२ डॉलर है। किताब के साथ सीडी भी है। ये स्पीच अच्छे है क्योंकि शब्दों कि ओबामा इस्तेमाल करते है - 'यस, वी कैन', और 'चेंज', की तरह - सीखने वले लोग आसान के साथ समझ और इस्तेमाल कर सकते हैं।

(blogger has a transliteration function in its post editor, so I wrote my homework here. There's an article on the Navbharat Times website about how a book of Obama's speeches is being sold to people in Japan to help them learn English. Crazy!

Link: http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4031642.cms)

Khan market again

Here in Khan market again. I've been compiling a list things that we've had to deal with here in Delhi, and here they are:

You probably shouldn't come to India if...

1) You're a clean freak
2) You don't like spicey food or have acid reflux
3) Are uncomfortable with blatant, pervasive poverty
4) Are agoraphobic
5) Have phobias associated with car horns or traffic
6) Get freaked out by people staring or taking pictures of you. Foreigners here (ESPECIALLY women) are quite the spectacle here. At the Taj Mahal we had people coming up to us asking is they could take pictures with us.

At the Taj Mahal.
They wanted pictures.
Of US.

All for now. Saal Mubarak! (happy new year)