{"id":15930,"date":"2018-03-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/19\/this-website-takes-you-closer-to-gita\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:00:00","slug":"this-website-takes-you-closer-to-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/19\/this-website-takes-you-closer-to-gita\/","title":{"rendered":"This Website Takes You Closer to Gita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/society\/history-and-culture\/website-with-a-difference-to-learn-bhagavad-gita\/article22892544.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, March 1, 2018 (The Hindu): It is never too late to start learning Srimad Bhagavad Gita. Members of the team that built the website https:\/\/gitachanting.wixsite.com\/gita believe in this as they add their attempt to numerous prior ones by so many others in bringing Bhagavan Sri Krishna&#8217;s Kurukshetra upadesa closer to a seeker. What perhaps differentiates this free-online-access, user-friendly effort is the combination of features, in short, RSTU &#8212; Repeat audio at a line-level instead of verse-level, Search Text at a letter-level in 10 scripts, Sandhi resolution between audio and text, create playlists Unique to your requirements. In its web version, indexed search-friendly text is available in Devanagari and eight other national scripts &#8212; Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, Oriya, Gurmukhi &#8212; in addition to two English transliteration schemes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is by no means the first effort to enable online learning of recitation of the Gita,&#8221; clarifies Megh Kalyanasundaram, a management professional on a research hiatus and architect of the website. &#8220;This is an attempt to complement existing ecosystem of free tools, with RSTU features, for greater ease-of-learning, higher learning effectiveness and deeper, more granular engagement with the text as such,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;It is best learnt directly from a qualified Guru; when that is not possible or even for self-practice, some learners may at times approach websites,&#8221; adds Megh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, March 1, 2018 (The Hindu): It is never too late to start learning Srimad Bhagavad Gita. Members of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}