<div dir="ltr"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Dear Sir/
Madam,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Please find
attached my profile as well as Expression of Interest to work as a volunteer
for Generation Panels to Develop Root Level Generation Rules with specific
reference to Neo-Brahmi scripts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">With kind
regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Attachments:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">1. Letter of Expression of Interest.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Expression of Interest</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Name: Ghanashyam Nepal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Email: <a href="mailto:nepalgs@gmail.com">nepalgs@gmail.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:g_s_nepal@yahoo.co.in">g_s_nepal@yahoo.co.in</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Position: Professor of Nepali Language &
Literature, University, Department of Nepali, University of North Bengal,
Darjeeling – 734013.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%">Expression of Interest</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif">I have been associated with teaching of and research in
Nepali Language and literature to postgraduate students and M. Phil & Ph.D.
Scholars for the last three decades at Banaras Hindu University and University
of North Bengal.<span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif">Among my other briefs, I have been working on projects
related to initiatives in Indian languages, with special reference to Nepali</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif">The nature of my work enables me to closely work with Nepali
and with language experts and linguistic communities. My background acts as a
bridge for porting Indian languages onto the digital medium.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif">Internationalized Domain Names and Internationalized
Registration Data are the areas where understanding of technical aspects
related to basic DNS infrastructure and end users expectations from the same
make solution finding more of a balancing act between technology and
linguistics than merely a computational problem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif">In my
capacity as Professor of Nepali language & literature, I have been closely
associated with Indian scripts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif">As
mentioned in the call for volunteers, I would like to volunteer for the
integration panel for neo-Brahmi Scripts: Bengali, <b>Devanagari</b>, Gujarati,
Gurmukhi, Tamil and Telugu.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif">SIGNATURE/NAME: Ghanashyam Nepal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">2. PROFILE:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> 1. Position
past and Present: a. Assistant Professor
of Nepali, University of North Bengal from April 1983 to October 1990</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> b. Associate
Professor of Nepali, Department of Indian Languages,
Banaras Hindu University from November 1990 to December 1999.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> c. Professor
of Nepali, Department of Nepali, University of
North Bengal, Darjeeling – 734013 from January 2000 till date.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> 2. Specialism: Nepali Language.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> 3.
Publication/Research: a. Books: (i) Literary history, criticism and
theory ; 04
titles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> (ii)
Nepali grammar: 02 titles (co- authored).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> b.
Published papers in Nepali, Hindi & English in different
journals & periodicals. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> c.
Conducted research on Nepali prose style and supervised
research works of M. Phil & Ph. D scholars on Nepali language
and literature.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> 4.
Associated with Language Technology projects on Nepali funded by DIT since 2008.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p></div>Dr. Ghanashyam Nepal<br>Professor<br>Dept. of Nepali<br>University of North Bengal<br>Siliguri - 734013<br>West Bengal<br><br>Ph. +91-9434137452<br><br>Alt. Email: <a href="mailto:g_s_nepal@yahoo.co.in">g_s_nepal@yahoo.co.in</a>
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