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, Tamil & Telugu. Other than […]
Indian Languages
Long weekend in Bangalore: Good for our roads, bad for language traffic
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. The language channels of Oneindia.in get good amount of traffic from […]
Domainnames in Indian languages, will it work?
Yesterday I received an invite to attend a seminar on Indian language domainnames being held in Pune by GIST division of CDAC. CDAC has developed a technology which will allow you to type domainnames in 22 Indian languages. Currently Latin characters are used to write the domainnames in English and European languages. ICANN, the authority […]
Can the government push languages on the net? No!
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, CII has suggested that the government ensure digitisation of music, video and film industry content in different Indian languages so there […]
Now, you can tweet in Indian languages
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 from zero the growth curve always looks impressive. The […]