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Retelling of The Pear Story: Dina Sankhil captions transcript

Retelling of The Pear Story: Dina Sankhil

Recording of Dina Shankhil Lamkang telling her version of the Pear Story.
Date: June 7, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of The Pear Story: Ningtamla Jangvei captions transcript

Retelling of The Pear Story: Ningtamla Jangvei

Recording of Ningtamla Jangvei telling her version of the Pear Story. Recorded in Hyderabad.
Date: June 7, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a Lamkang traditional dance captions transcript

Performance of a Lamkang traditional dance

Recording of a short, impromptu dancing lesson of Lamkang traditional dance.
Date: June 7, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of Lamkang Inn Laa Kapaa hintha hungtlung nikdon captions transcript

Performance of Lamkang Inn Laa Kapaa hintha hungtlung nikdon

A performance of a hymn in Lamkang Inn Laa by Lamkang students studying in Hyderabad.
Date: June 7, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Yashvir Singh narrates the Jackal and the Crow captions transcript

Yashvir Singh narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Yashvir describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the crow’s perspective. Yashvir had made it clear before being recorded that he was very familiar with the story, which is noticeable, as he notably provides lengthy descriptions and narrations. The recording was made at Uma Homestay in Rakchham village.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bhupender Singh narrates the Jackal and the Crow captions transcript

Bhupender Singh narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Bhupender describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the crow’s perspective. The recording was made at his home in Rakchham village.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about Bimla Devi's daily activities captions transcript

Conversation about Bimla Devi's daily activities

Bhajan Dass asks Bimla about her daily activities during the four seasons. The interview-like quality of this recording provides useful examples of interrogatives. The recording was made at their home in Rakchham village, right after a period of heavy snowfall.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about climate change and snowfall captions transcript

Conversation about climate change and snowfall

Bhupender and Ayala discuss how they have experienced climate change over the past few years in Rakchham village. The recording was made at their home in Rakchham village, following a period of heavy snowfall.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Snowfall in Rakchham captions transcript

Snowfall in Rakchham

Bimla discusses snowfall in Rakchham over the past few years, saying that heavy snowfall was more frequent in earlier times. The recording was made at her and her husband's house in Rakchham, just after some heavy snowfall episodes when the village was still covered by thick snow. It was only a few days after the road from Reckong Peo to Sangla and Rakchham had reopened.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of how to make a traditional carpet captions transcript

Description of how to make a traditional carpet

Bupinder and Ayala describe how to make traditional carpets 'khyara' and related local items. They continue to have a natural conversation that goes beyond this subject. The recording was made at their home in Rakchham village after heavy snowfall. Water was dripping in the background.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'I lo kani liu to'

This is a song of expressing love between a man and woman. The man says, 'For the one I love I could bring the biggest bull. I can work the whole mountain. What do you say? My fair lady'. The woman responds, 'Oh bachelor! Stop teasing. Do not do as you wish. Do not mention about a bull You don’t have to pay anything. I will come for free'.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Nang liu nadao suang'

This song talks about the beauty of a woman as she matures. It says, everything looks better when a girl becomes a woman.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Hey kenglam lung'

This song is about the beauty of the village. It says that the village is better than any foreign land. The singer appeals to the villagers who have gone out of the village to return to the village.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Dailiam, Binthu
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Akiluang tingnai phian kali'

This song laments that things have changed in the village after the singer's beloved (Mungimai) is married off to a foreign man. He sings, 'The sun ray has changed in my village. My land is no longer like the old days. The sound of pigeon has changed. My heartfelt regret is that I could not protect Mungimai.'
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Pui ram duang katen mai'

The singer asks the people who made the road, "have you seen my love come home yet? If you see her tell her to mark the way. Tell her to show me the way. I will come like a cattle that cannot be pulled."
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Khamping lui'

This is a song of Khamping, a legendary composer. This song talks about his failed relationship with a village damsel. His lover was given in marriage to a rich man of neighboring village by her parents.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Guithuanang lui'

This is a song of Guithuanang of Tharon village. This song was composed as a conversation between two lovers expressing beauty, desire, and love for each other.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress (open access)

U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress

This report discusses the United States' relationship with India as it regards nuclear nonproliferation and cooperation. It particularly looks at agreements made between the Bush administration and India, and the Obama administrations continuation of these policies.
Date: May 7, 2012
Creator: Kerr, Paul K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress (open access)

U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress

India, which has not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and does not have International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all of its nuclear material, exploded a “peaceful” nuclear device in 1974, convincing the world of the need for greater restrictions on nuclear trade. The United States created the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as a direct response to India's test, halted nuclear exports to India a few years later, and worked to convince other states to do the same. India tested nuclear weapons again in 1998. This report looks at how the relationship between the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration with India in regards to nuclear power.
Date: May 7, 2012
Creator: Kerr, Paul K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Moscow conference decisions

Front: Text describes 5 Moscow conference decisions. Maps: Moscow conference decisions as reflected on the global map. Includes photograph of Ernest Bevin (Britain), V. M. Molotov (Russia) and James F. Byrnes (U.S.) Back: Reenlistment. List of reasons to reenlist. Charts of income and retirement income for enlisted classes.
Date: January 7, 1946
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: UN orders ceasefire] (open access)

[News Script: UN orders ceasefire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: 1971-12-07T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon (open access)

Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon

According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).
Date: April 7, 2008
Creator: Harcastle, P. D.; Baird, David & Harden, Virginia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a song of advice to a village damsel

This is a song of advice to village damsel not to marry outside the village. The young woman was reminded that her village is better than other villages and she should marry someone from the village.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a village guarding song

Men would guard the village in bygone days. While doing their duty, they sing songs of various themes. In this song, two men who are guarding the village sang to each other expressing what they want to become in life.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library