OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Studies in Digital Humanities (DH) constantly illustrate that the discipline cannot be confined…
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Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here),…
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An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since…
Sindhi Sanchaya: A Repository of Data about Sindhi Books
In my previous post, I wrote about the Sindhi Halchal Archive: a passion project that extends the work of the…
Combining Digital Resources to Investigate the Oral-formulaic Diction of Sanskrit Texts (Part 2)
In the first post of this series, I introduced the notion of formularity in oral poetry along with a new…
Combining Digital Resources to Investigate the Oral-formulaic Diction of Sanskrit Texts (Part 1)
In my previous posts on The Digital Orientalist, I introduced two types of linguistic resources dedicated to the study of…
Archives in Indian Languages as Digital Commons in India
This is a follow-up to part one on the “Future of the Commons” conference published earlier this week. While that…
AI and Indian Languages: Wishful Thinking?
With recent advancements in AI, including developments by Sarvam AI and Hanooman AI, creating a lot of hype around large…
A Parallel Treebank of Speeches by Narendra Modi, PM of India
This is a guest post by Erica Biagetti In my first post as a guest contributor to the Digital Orientalist, I…
The Sanskrit WordNet: a new database for the study of the Sanskrit lexicon
This is a guest post by Erica Biaggetti WordNets are valuable resources in linguistics, offering structured and comprehensive databases that…