Sunday, December 07, 2008
Sunil's India - Part 3
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Sunil: 'Outside of a Haveli in Jailsamer, Rajastan... ' Haveli is a terhm used for private residence in North India. Wikipedia explains that the follow the Islamic style of architeture, with a courtyard, a fountain, and lots of geometric shapes and symmetry. Rajasthan, India's largest state, on the Pakistan border, is a must-see as it contains medieval desert kingdoms straight out of Tales of the Arabian Nights. Each city was the capital of little sultanate, particularly Jaipur, Jhodpur, and Udaipur...
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Sunil: 'Poster was interesting as the man seemed angry'. The Hindi script, Devangari, is actually very simple and very regular - everything is pronounced as it is written. Hindi is an Indo-European language, and its grammar is not unlike the Romance and Germanic languages - gender, tenses, conjugation - and less complicated than the Slavic languages (no case - nouns don't change based on how they're used). So, Hindi is the second-easiest of the Asian languages. The winner is Indonesian, which uses the Roman alphabet and has a very uncomplicated grammar...
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Sunil: "Girls were heading to the temple and they were singing.' Aaron: 'India is so colorful! When they visit the US, it must look as drab as Dorothy Gale's Kansas in the first fifteen minutes of 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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Sunil: 'and so I had to share my camel with a fellow tourist.' Aaron; 'what a hunky fellow tourist!'. Since Rajasthan is a desert, a camel ride is tourist classic!
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