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June 6th, 2008
Today I came across an interesting set of malayalam hitech pazhanchollukal. Who knows, in time these may replace our original pazhanchollukal!
“venamengil software floppiyilum kayarum” - Even this can change quickly to “venamengil software cdyilum kayarum”. Funny, the speed with which things change!
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January 23rd, 2008
Kerala Kaumudi has published Malayalam Calendar for 2008. You can download it from here. Kerala Kaumudi is the only paper to publish the calendar in the Web for free!
This calendar contains all important holidays, muhoorthams, train timings and star sign predictions for the year. It is in a suitable format for printing. It is about [...]
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January 13th, 2008
I have written many times on the lack of consumer choice in Kerala. The only hope is the arrival of new retail chains. In Kerala, Trivandrum is especially hostile to consumers. Most of the shopkeepers are behaving like they are running some kind of charity shop for consumers.
Check out an interesting experience of Mr. Santhosh [...]
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October 21st, 2007
There are many writers and thinkers in Kerala. But most of them behave like pet dogs of political parties. Sakkariya is an exception and hence I am a big fan of him.
In the following speech (dubai indian consulate, october 18), Sakkariya looks at the political and social situation in Kerala. Some of his key points [...]
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July 12th, 2007
Shijaz writes about his experience on the Malayalam language pack for Windows XP,
So I dared to download the Windows XP interface pack of my native language, Malayalam from the Microsoft website. Very interesting to note that even the download page was written in Malayalam. Too excited to read, I went ahead, downloaded and installed it.
He [...]
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July 11th, 2007
I have seen many remixes of movies. But none is funnier than this one. These guys have taken an appropriate scene and remixed it with Malayalam dialogues. “Madu Mohan Serial” mention makes it priceless!
The video is about 5 minutes and to enjoy it, you have to be a hardcore mallu!
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June 26th, 2007
June 18th, 2007
Malayali geek Nishad Kaippally has a site which hosts the “The Complete Malayalam Bible In Unicode“. Both Old testament and new testament are available here. You can read it in new lipi or old lipi.
Please note that you need a Malayalam unicode font installed on your operating system to read this. You can download Anjali [...]
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May 24th, 2007
The 50 cents parody album “bucket” is now a video. Enjoy! (if you can)
Thanks Jo.
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March 17th, 2007
Whenever any new regulation is introduced by government, it invariably leads to corruption. The easiest way to reduce corruption is to reduce permits/approvals etc. required from government departments.
For example, just after thattekkadu tragedy, many government employees started harassing boat owners and started collecting money as bribe.
Kaippally points to the latest government regulation on the [...]
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March 16th, 2007
Thomas P John has setup a site to simplify searching Malayalam content on Google. If you used to type Malayalam words in Varamozhi and then used to copy it to Google search, this site will be very handy!
Tapioca (Search the web in Malayalam) is powered by Mozhi and Anajli old font. From Tapioca,
Tapioca at this [...]
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February 11th, 2007
This week Malayalam movie awards were announced.
Best film - Drishtantham
Best director - Lenin Rajendran(Rathri Mazha)
Best actor - Prithviraj (Vasthavam)
Best actress - Urvasi (Madhuchandralekha)
Immediately after the announcement, the jury started getting abusive and threatening calls. The problem is simple, everyone was expecting an award or was expecting an award for his/her favorite actor [...]
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February 3rd, 2007
Do you know that SSLC textbooks can be downloaded from Kerala government’s Website? Yes, it is true - All the textbooks can now be downloaded as PDF files. So if you have plenty of free paper and free printer ink, there is no need to buy the textbooks
Click here to download or read [...]
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January 30th, 2007
Ministry of communications & information technology has released a suite of tools for Malayalam language. You can download them here. The package contains,
Malayalam fonts (true type, open type etc.)
Malayalam spell checker
Malayalam-English and English-Malayalam dictionaries
Malayalam Microsoft word tool
Malayalam OCR (very useful!)
Malayalam text to speech tool
I don’t know how Achu mama will react with all these Microsoft [...]
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January 28th, 2007
Sometime back I wrote a post about the karuvannur toll bridge guessing that probably it is the cheapest toll bridge. The toll is for 2 rupees.
Kuttan menon writes about an incident in Amala hospital which shows how valuable 2 rupees can be!
കഞ്ഞിക്ക് പത്തുരൂപയാണ് വില. ആ സ്ത്രീയുടെ കൈവശം 8 രൂപയേ ഉള്ളൂ. കൌണ്ടറിലെ പയ്യന് അല്പം പരുഷമായിത്തന്നെയാണ് ആ [...]
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