SLLING-L Digest, Vol 24, Issue 4

[Samar Sinha]

Dear Mark,

You are absolutely right. It is about Dadkhai in JK (constituency of
former CM of JK, Ghulam Nabi Azad). Interestingly, a group of doctors
from AIIMS, New Delhi is studying the prevalence of deafness at
Dadkhai (as reported in the Hindustan Times -- need to check the exact
date).

However, I mentioned "Silent Village" of Karnataka because many people
had come for fieldwork (like Debra Grossmann from UCB) for filming
deaf community in India, and for linguistic study. Infact, I was one
of them to go for a fieldwork in 2005 at the Village with Debra and
Ramakrishna, a deaf activist/teacher from Bangalore.

It is sharing the fact about the "Silent Village" of Karnataka.
For (false) claims about the village, visit projectdeafindia.org.

Moreover, I have already asked Dr. Desai about his "discovery of the
village" from US, and I had sent him a CD of my fieldwork through his
friend from Delhi. As expected, there is no reply from him. As far as
I know, Rotary Club is behind the hoax.

It is for this reason, I wrote the above trying to contextualise with
"silent village" in JK with "silent village" in Karnataka -- both in
India.

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> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:39:20 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu>
> Subject: [SLLING-L] re: India's "silent" village of deaf-mutes (Soya
> 	MORI)
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> Samar, what is your point? Did you follow the link? This article *is* about
> a village, Dadhkai, in Jammu and Kashmir state. There is nothing in it
> about Karnataka.
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>    Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
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> #Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:17:05 +0530
> #From: Samar Sinha <samarsinha at gmail.com>
> #
> #  India's "silent" village of deaf-mutes at Karnataka is a HOAX. However,
> #there is a news report about a deaf village at Kashmir.
>
> #> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:21:03 +0900
> #> From: Soya MORI <soya_mori at ide.go.jp>
> #> Subject: [SLLING-L] India's "silent" village of deaf-mutes
> #>
> #> Hello, all.
> #>
> #> Just now I found this ariticle on the Reuiter's web.
> #>
> #> The caption for the article might be just problematic. However, we can
> #> see their sign conversation on the web. Please enjoy!
> #>
> #> India's "silent" village of deaf-mutes
> #> http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE55T22Q20090630
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-- 
Samar Sinha
Senior Lecturer cum Junior Research Officer
Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Manasagangothri, Mysore - 570 006
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