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Here’s a great example of podcasts being used in the preservation of culture: the Gujarati Literary Council (Gujarati Sahitya Parishad), an institution for the promotion of Gujarati literature, is using podcasting to make Gujarati literature accessible to the Web generation. Gujarati is the native language of the Indian state of Gujarat, was the original language spoken by Mahatma Gandhi, and is the 26th most spoken native language in the world with 46 million speakers worldwide. The Parishad recently began uploading video podcasts of readings by Gujarati authors and poets to the Parishad website. A member of the Parishad said, “Our sole purpose is to popularize Gujarati literature, and technology seems to be the best medium to reach out to the Generation Next. It is only through them the Gujarati literature can be preserved.”