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A Report On The Trip To Mysore

The students visited the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in Mysore to learn about linguistics research. They attended sessions where speakers discussed their work, including an app to help travelers communicate regionally. Students also toured the library and asked questions. Afterwards, they visited author R.K. Narayan's house to see where he lived and was inspired to write his influential works. The tour provided insight into how Narayan applied linguistics concepts to his writing in order to profoundly impact the language and culture of English in India.

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A Report On The Trip To Mysore

The students visited the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in Mysore to learn about linguistics research. They attended sessions where speakers discussed their work, including an app to help travelers communicate regionally. Students also toured the library and asked questions. Afterwards, they visited author R.K. Narayan's house to see where he lived and was inspired to write his influential works. The tour provided insight into how Narayan applied linguistics concepts to his writing in order to profoundly impact the language and culture of English in India.

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Stanzin Smonlam

Dr SANTOSH KUMAR

BENGH

7 October 2022

A report on the trip to Mysore

Visit at CIIL

Recently, the streams of 3ENGH and 5ENGH took a trip to Mysore, in order that we

could visit the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) and the house of the prolific Indian

writer, R.K. Narayan.

The trip was organised as an extension of the Linguistics classes offered by the

Department of English and Cultural Studies. Due to this the primary focus of the visit was to

acquire valuable information in the field of Linguistics which is beneficial in the understanding

of the subject for students.

There were two sessions held in the conference hall. In the first session, there were

different speakers imparting knowledge about their work at the institute. These included the

various practical applications of the research being done in the field of Linguistics at the institute

like the creation of an app which would help travellers communicate better in the regional

languages of the places they visit. Subsequently, a forum for discussion with the lecturers was

opened where multiple questions were asked regarding the topics discussed. The previously

mentioned app was one of the things inquired about as one student asked if it would also contain

knowledge of slang used in the regional language, which might be useful in communicating with

the locals of that region.


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Following the two sessions lunch was served, after which there was a tour of the library

at the campus which further allowed the students to engage in research at CIIL.

Visit of R.K. Narayan’s House

After the field trip visit at the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) was finished,

the tour buses headed for the house where one of India’s most famous authors of the last century

lived.

The tour of R.K. Narayan’s house was not meant for a large crowd, and at times it did not

seem a good idea to house so many people under one roof. However, it was a memorable

experience. An experience which showed exactly how the master of a language plied his trade.

How he used to study and live in the ways which culminated in the writing of texts which have

had a profound impact on the language and culture of English in India.

The way our tour groups first went to an institute which conducts research in a field

which aims to break down, understand and study language was like a prelude for this visit. It was

almost as if after learning concepts in Linguistics we were being shown how it was being applied

into real life.

There were quotes from Narayan’s books strewn about the house and here was the

physical manifestation of the legacy of his works. And we were part of that legacy, the way we

adorned the identity and oeuvre of this writer. If not, at least we were perpetuating that legacy, as

we all gathered in as much as we could from the house so that we too could be inspired as he

must once have been by the works of his predecessors.

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