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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - We are being invaded by Indian FTs!!!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right>
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</NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate noWrap align=right width="30%">Jan-20 10:35 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT noWrap align=right width="1%" height=20>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname noWrap width="68%">ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 35) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft width="1%" rowSpan=4> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>5628.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Public lecture of no use to non-Hindi speakers
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I AM writing in with regard to the public lecture by India's Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on the turnaround of the Indian railway.
The lecture was held at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy last Saturday. Because of the overwhelming response, I had earlier received an e-mail message from the school informing me that there was a possibility the 350-seat auditorium would not be able to accommodate everyone, and that those unable to get in would have to be moved to another lecture theatre.
Even though I made an effort to arrive at the event early, I was told that the auditorium was full and that I had to be seated in the other lecture theatre. I was fine with the arrangement. My main concern, however, was the fact that the minister was going to speak in Hindi and there were no headsets in the other lecture theatre transmitting a simulcast translation in English.
I was told by the ushers that the simulcast English translation would be provided over the loudspeakers within the theatre.
However, within the first sentence of Mr Lalu's lecture, the largely Indian audience in the theatre clamoured for the actual Hindi lecture to be delivered over the loudspeakers. It was then announced that the lecture would be delivered over the loudspeakers in Hindi, instead of the English simulcast. Non-Hindi speakers in the audience were asked to move to the auditorium and headsets would be provided.
Unfortunately, there were only 15 headsets left for the 40 or so of us who were non-Hindi speakers. Many of those with no headsets, including myself, decided to leave.
My unhappiness with the organisers of the event is over their decision to switch the English simulcast over the loudspeakers to Hindi, knowing that there were insufficient headsets to cater to the non-Hindi speakers in the audience.
That decision did a great disservice to the organisers' intention to provide an insight into the turnaround of the Indian railway. Ang Yeow Sien
[email protected]
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I AM writing in with regard to the public lecture by India's Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on the turnaround of the Indian railway.
The lecture was held at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy last Saturday. Because of the overwhelming response, I had earlier received an e-mail message from the school informing me that there was a possibility the 350-seat auditorium would not be able to accommodate everyone, and that those unable to get in would have to be moved to another lecture theatre.
Even though I made an effort to arrive at the event early, I was told that the auditorium was full and that I had to be seated in the other lecture theatre. I was fine with the arrangement. My main concern, however, was the fact that the minister was going to speak in Hindi and there were no headsets in the other lecture theatre transmitting a simulcast translation in English.
I was told by the ushers that the simulcast English translation would be provided over the loudspeakers within the theatre.
However, within the first sentence of Mr Lalu's lecture, the largely Indian audience in the theatre clamoured for the actual Hindi lecture to be delivered over the loudspeakers. It was then announced that the lecture would be delivered over the loudspeakers in Hindi, instead of the English simulcast. Non-Hindi speakers in the audience were asked to move to the auditorium and headsets would be provided.
Unfortunately, there were only 15 headsets left for the 40 or so of us who were non-Hindi speakers. Many of those with no headsets, including myself, decided to leave.
My unhappiness with the organisers of the event is over their decision to switch the English simulcast over the loudspeakers to Hindi, knowing that there were insufficient headsets to cater to the non-Hindi speakers in the audience.
That decision did a great disservice to the organisers' intention to provide an insight into the turnaround of the Indian railway. Ang Yeow Sien
[email protected]
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