Vidyarambh—The Hindi Tutor

Author Biographies

• Rama Sohonee, Foreign Service Institute

  Rama Sohonee is currently a Language Training Specialist at the Slavic Department of the Foreign Service Institute. She holds a Doctor of Arts degree in foreign language (Russian) instruction from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York. Formerly she was Hindi Language and Culture Instructor at FSI and Adjunct Lecturer of Russian language at SUNY, Stony Brook.

• Pushpa Patel, Foreign Service Institute

  Pushpa Patel has been a Hindi Language and Culture Instructor at the FSI since 1992. She has developed the FSI Hindi Home Page and other instructional materials related to reading comprehension in Hindi. She has additionally been instructing in Hindi and Sanskrit at the high school level in Gujarat since 1973. Pushpa Patel holds a Master of Arts degree in Sanskrit from Saurashtra University, Gujarat, India.