As a part of a plan that could in some ways be called an oral history project, three of us–Bal, Prem, Shyam–started audio-recording ELT talk among ourselves. In future issues, we will try to talk to experienced teachers at home and with scholars abroad. We hope that this will not only make your khurak more lively with real people’s voices, it might also preserve the voices/resources of this generation for future ones, contributing to the society’s intellectual/professional collective memory, archive, or whatever we call it.Please listen and comment on this international conference call (Hawaii, London, Kentucky) done by Skype and recorded with Audacity. We’ve given it a title: Putting Local Knowledge First.