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Wiki says the following about the language Esperanto. "Esperanto is by far the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L.L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro , in 1887. The word esperanto means 'one who hopes' in the language itself. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding." Its a very logical and structured language. Unlike English, every letter in the language is pronounced in exactly one way and does not depend on the word in which it appears. This is true for even Marathi and Hindi (two Indian languages). But what is more amazing about this language is, its grammar rules are fully deterministic. There are roots for nouns, verbs, adjectives. They all have distinguished suffixes that indicate whether th...

I haven't updated my blog for a long long time. But I have been alive in the real world. I have even been out of touch with most of my friends and sorry about that. But here is one way to update you. (And also boast about my amazing life :)...I am clearly high!) Bought a camera: I have a kick butt camera of my own now. Its a Canon A470. Nothing very exceptional, but still its awesome, just because now I own it. Women In Theory: I attended a workshop in Princeton University from 13 June to 19 June. It was great fun. You can read about it from following blog. Something that is not written on that blog is the Mentor program about which I'll tell you in a moment. NYC and Phili and fun: During my stay at Princeton I visited a friend in Phili and went bar hopping with him at midnight. Later met another friend who came from Florida and we hung out a hell lot in NY and places around. I saw few places, Times square, Brooklyn bridge and statue of Liberty in NY. And enjoyed traveling ...