The national archives seems to be open to all public and info is free
without charge. One needs to go physically to NA, search the catalogue for
documents of interest, fill out an application, and these will be retreived
and made available for browsing. Digitization is on, but may take years.
Catalogue is not available for online request. JSecy is abroad. So could
not meet. NA would contain Govt files. Private collections of Gandhi Nehru
and such others are also available. Oldest doc is fm 650 AD. Most from
yr1700+.
Sowmyan
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Dear Vishnu,
We should published Press-Note ASAP.
Jayanta
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Vishnu <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Jayanta,
It's difficult to work with journalists who may be rushing to meet
submission deadlines and end up mis-quoting the facts or give wrong
details :)
Probably, it may help if you could do a Press-Note and send it to all the
Media agencies. At least they will have the correct details in hand.
All the best!!
Vishnu
On Saturday 21 December 2013 11:44 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
KOLKATA: In an effort to enthuse people to become regular contributors to
its site, Wikipedia will launch a campaign at the Kolkata Book Fair<
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kolkata-Book-Fair>next year. It
has already booked a stall and lined up an awareness
programme to sign up volunteers. Incidentally,
Kolkata fares poorly when
it
comes to contribute to the world's biggest
online encyclopedia. At
present,
the city has only five contributors.
Wikipedia needs people from Kolkata to contribute voluntarily not only to
the mother website but also to its Bengali link, Banglapedia. "We would
hold workshops where we would give presentations about how to edit
existing
material on Wiki/Banglapedia. The biggest
incentive for any contributor
is
that, the moment he/she writes a piece or edits
something, it gets
updated
and is published for the world to see,"
explained Jayanta Nath, chief of
Banglapedia.
The Book Fair authorities have already sealed the deal and are looking
forward to this heavyweight participant.
"Wikipedia's participation will add glamour to the fair," said Tridib
Chatterjee, general secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild<
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Publishers-and-Booksellers-Guild&g…
.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Now another wrong report....
>
>
>
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wikipedia-stall-at-book-fai…
Jayanta
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