For the love of learning

She managed to learn five languages - her teachers were her brother-in-law, acquaintances and her children's books.Lakshmi Venkateshwaran looks like any 87-year old Tamilian maami, in a neatlytied saree with a thin gold border and the traditional five-point diamond nose ring. But that's where the similarity ends. She can read, write and speak in five Indian languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.

And Lakshmi has not studied beyond Class VIII. Born in a traditional Palaghat Iyer family, little Lakshmi showed signs of scholarly success even in primary school. She excelled in Mathematics, learning her quarter-times tables, half-times tables and three-fourths times tables with ease, and picking up the beautiful and difficult classical language, Telugu. A bright student with a will to learn, Lakshmi always stood first in her class.

'I wish I could have studied more, but there were no schools for girls beyond the eighth standard in my neighbourhood at that time. Even though I was very good at my studies, my brother would just not allow me to go to a co-educational school, since I would have been the only girl in my class then!' Gaining knowledge Since she came from a background of Tamil-speaking people who lived in Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, she had a variety of things to learn at home and at school.

At home, she learnt to read, write and speak her mother tongue, Tamil, and picked up the mantras and mythology of a priestly family. And at school, she received instructions in logical and scientific subjects such as Mathematics - in Telugu! By the time she was 10, she was simultaneously getting an informal as well as a formal education, and working in a different language for each one. Even after she'd given up school, she channelled her keen interest in learning into studying mythological stories.

"My brother just wouldn't allow me to go to a co-educational school, since I would have been the only girl in my class then!"

Marriage & beyond

At 15, life took a dramatic new turn. She was married to a dashing young man in the British Indian Army. But there was a new problem. Lakshmi's own family happened to be based in Andhra Pradesh. But traditionally, Palaghat Iyers live in Kerala. While her husband went off on posting to faraway places, the new Mrs Lakshmi Venkateshwaran was left behind with her in-laws in Palaghat.

They spoke Malayalam, not Tamil.

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This has to be one of the worst Macworld keynotes ever....and there were a couple of stinkers. I mean....where are the new MacBook Pros? Where is a new Mini? Where is an AppleTV with an OPTICAL DRIVE! Nowhere to be seen. What do we get? A new laptop where they charge us more and give us less. I mean...when was the last time Apple shipped a computer without Firewire??? Please! Hell...they should have saved the Mac Pro announcement for today, to add SOMETHING to the awful show. Maybe then my portfolio wouldn't have taken the dive it did. Come on, Steve, is this the best you can do? Where are these new Apple/Intel devices??? My biggest disappointment is the lack of Blu-Ray though. I mean, no new iPod? No new iPhone. I mean....I don't need anything HUGE, just some storage increases. Bad....bad bad bad. In addition, I would wager that there will be a small server room/alcove down there: a Mac mini or Mac Pro server (mini is more likely), with a couple of external hard drives (Drobo, perhaps?), wired to the latest AEBS and positioned directly underneath the living room. This would allow running Ethernet up to the living room TV, equipped of course with the new :apple:tv. That provides a solid Gigabit connection for streaming movies, and plenty of WiFi bandwidth for the master suite. An AirPort Express, set to Bridge mode, will likely be placed near the three smaller bedrooms for better Wi-Fi coverage at that end of the house. Jobs wasn't smug at all IMHO. He was excited about it. You should of clearly seen that. He made a few jokes( like that prank call to Starbucks), but that was just his normal old humor. The only problem I had was with the order he stated iPod, phone, and internet communicator. The iPod and phone got good responses and then the internet communicator the people went, " ummm.... ok." I would of went internet communicator-> iPod-> phone. Get louder responses step and save the best for last. Other then that the keynote was good, if not one of his best. For you iPhone haters, you people seem to think hardware makes the product revolutionary. Since you think so, you're right then. The iPhone in terms of hardware is nothing special. Got the standard CPU, standard 2.5G things, etc. But, there is more things that make it revolutionary then hardware. The UI is what makes the iPhone revolutionary. How you navigate the iPhone is revolutionary. How easy it is to use it and navigate through it.

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