Vak-pedia: Can technology democratize our oral traditions?
Live MintIt is surprisingly difficult to find the folktales from my childhood or my grandmother’s proverbs on the web. It is not that Google’s search methodology has failed—it demonstrates the drought of information on the internet on India’s vast oral traditions. It is in this that I carry the hope of our cherished oral traditions transcending the narrow walls of caste, region, gender and language to become universally retrievable and culture-defining exhibits of the Indian internet. This scorching pace of progress also rings true for Hindi and other Indian languages—where we can expect, in the next couple of years, near-perfect voice recognition that even takes into account our multilingual speech predilections. Ramanujan describes in his seminal lecture “Who Needs Folklore?”—In a South Indian folktale, also told elsewhere, one dark night an old woman was searching intently for something in the street.
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