Archive for the ‘indian languages’ Category

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.

Domainnames in Indian languages, will it work?

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Yesterday I received an invite to attend a seminar on Indian language domainnames being held in Pune by GIST division of CDAC.

Can the government push languages on the net? No!

Friday, June 26th, 2009

India's premier industry body Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has submitted their recommendations to the Telecom Minister. More about this can be read on Medianama. I was surprised to see a note about languages,

Now, you can tweet in Indian languages

Monday, June 1st, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="215" caption="TweetHindi"][/caption] Twitter has been gaining substantial user base from India. Just a year back this article said Twitter was yet to gain popularity in India. In March 2009 the traffic from India went up by 74%, but as the comments in that posting indicates when you start ...