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Download Malayalam Calendar 2009

Kerala Kaumudi has recently released the Malayalam calendar for the year 2009. People from outside Kerala might find it an essential download. The calendar is available as a downloadable PDF file and is about 1MB in size.
The calendar is in a printable format and contains train timings, holiday details, panchangam and horoscope.  Thanks Kerala Kaumudi [...]

Russian song in Malayalam

Check out this hilarious Malayalam interpretation of a Russian folk song. The song is played by Ivan Kupala music group.  This is a kind of “reverse Buffalax” where putting Malayalam subtitles on a Russian folk song makes it more meaningful! Enjoy..

Complete guide to financial crisis (Malayalam)

Current financial crisis in US is caused by unregulated borrowings and lack of financial discipline. Someone has put together an impressive guide on the current financial crisis. I don’t know who created it ( I got it as an email forward), but it captures the greed aspect quite well! This picture also can be used [...]

Is Malayalam a classical language?

I always wonder why we spent so much energy and effort on things which matter least. The latest in these controversies is the demand for giving “Malayalam” the classical language status. The demand is triggered by the recent addition of Kannada and Telugu as “classical languages” by Government of India.
It was in 2004 that government [...]

Hitech pazhanchollukal (malayalam)

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!

Download Malayalam Calendar 2008 - PDF

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 [...]

Lack of consumer choice and competition in Kerala

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 [...]

Sakkariya on the current political and social situation in Kerala

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 [...]

Windows XP in Malayalam

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 [...]

Matrix remixed in Malayalam - hilarious

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!

Use in sentence (vakyathil prayogikkuka)

Read Malayalam bible online

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 [...]

The Bucket : Malayalam album

The 50 cents parody album “bucket” is now a video. Enjoy! (if you can)

Thanks Jo.

How government encourages corruption

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 [...]

Search the Web in Malayalam

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 [...]