Archive for the ‘indian languages’ Category

Domain names in Indian languages to be released soon

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Today's Mint reports domain names in regional languages will be released soon. There has been talk about this for a while now, it would be interesting to see how the usage of language domainnames will pick up in India.

Localisation is the order of the day on the internet

Friday, August 6th, 2010

We had written this article in April/May 2010 for the Pitch magazine. This article was published in July 2010 edition, got to read it only today. Reproducing the text version of that article here..

3G: What will make it tick in Rural India?

Monday, April 26th, 2010

In continuation with my MobileMonday 3G post, there was a lot of talk about 3G will tick well in rural India. Reasons being, there will be many in non-Tier-1 cities who will want to make use of telemedicine. I hope it does become a reality by which the needy really ...

TV in India recognizes regional language as the future

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The TV fraternity in India sees a huge opportunity in regional languages. They agree it is the future. While explicitly the names of the languages haven't been mentioned I am assuming the non-Hindi space in the language pie is mainly occupied by the four South Indian languages - Kannada, Malayalam, ...

Long weekend in Bangalore: Good for our roads, bad for language traffic

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Long weekends are always good & bad news for me. Bangalore roads are wonderful to drive during long weekends. It is safe to assume a huge percentage of population goes out of Bangalore during holidays - mainly to Tamil Nadu, Andhra (united Andhra!), Kerala.