Welcome to IndiCS.InfO

Dear visitor!

You have ended up at a site under perpetual construction, which will be expanded with all kinds of stuff related to India. I thank you for your visit. For the time being the site is in its childhood and has little content. You might want to visit the mother site JÉ! India to get an idea of what you can expect here - but be warned that it is all in Hungarian.

I encourage common sense and a critical yet open-minded approach to India (as well as to practically everything else except cockroaches). This is why the site is called IndiCS.InfO, which stands for India with Common Sense for the Informed Outsider, the type of person I consider myself and wish to incite others to become.

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About the Author

As you may have noticed, my name is Dániel Balogh (that's just Daniel for you English-speaking folks). I was born in July 1974 and lived most of my life in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. My secondary school used English as the main language of instruction, and the language proficiency I received there is not only something I am proud of to this day, but also the main source of my livelihood.

My interest has always been in things other than the mundane - call me a snob or a weirdo if you wish. I started my university studies as a Psychology major, but already keen on joining the Indology degree course, which essentially consists of Hindi and Sanskrit language training, with bits of everything else Indian added in for flavour.

After procrastinating as long as I could, I finally had no choice but to finish my MA (giving up psychology and becoming a certified Indologist). I am now considering going on to a PhD. Meanwhile, I work now and then as a translator to and from English (just as I have done through all my university years, though I now have more time to work on account of there being no classes I must visit). For a while now, I've been involved with the Clay Sanskrit Library, a project to publish works of Sanskrit literature side by side with an English translation. This work has given me plenty of satisfaction, since at last this is something where I can use what I've spent years learning, and even increase my skills.

Once a year or so I also have the opportunity to guide Hungarian tourists around in India. I have also travelled India as a backpacker with friends and on my own, lived there a year as a scholarship student, and assisted Hungarian film-makers and musicians in getting around in India. I must stress that there do exist people who know more about India than my not-so-humble self, as well as many people whose knowledge of India takes on a radically different aspect - without either their or my opinions being wrong. Nevertheless, I am happy the way I am, and feel that writing this site in my very own view and style will not only be enjoyable (and hopefully profitable) for me, but for others as well.

When I am not earning money, not meddling in scholarly affairs, and not working on things like this site, I prefer either to get more in touch with nature, or to get away from it completely. The former is served by my fondness for hiking and the bevy of houseplants and aquaria I have in my home; the latter by reading science fiction and fantasy, or by whiling away my time in front of the computer with things like amateur 3D rendering and retouching my photos.

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