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Some useful links for mallus

Are you on the lookout for a Job? Well, if you are lucky, you might be able to find your dream job among the walkin jobs published here.
If you are looking for more info on Malayalam language and fonts, start your search here.
This paper is a bit old, but still interesting.

Bharathanjali - A self reliant village near Kozhikkod

Kris Sreekandath writes about Bharathanjali – A self-reliant village near Kozhikode (Calicut). I am not sure what it says, but there is also a video on the village.
Bharathanjali is the brain child of Mr. K.V.Krishnan, a simple and dedicated village person from Kerala, the south west coast of India, with a wonderful vision to improve [...]

Air India Express starts online booking of flight tickets for Doha

Air-India Express (Air-India’s budget airline) opens its online booking for its Doha services today. You can access it here.
All passengers who had purchased tickets for travel on Air-India from March 25 onwards can visit Air-India office to transfer their bookings to the budget carrier and reissue their regular tickets as e-tickets.
Currently Air India Express flies [...]

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 [...]

Videos at official Kerala Tourism site

If you are looking for videos of Kerala tourist destinations, look no further. The official Kerala Tourism site has a growing collection of short videos.
This site is a gold mine of Kerala related stuff. You can find good set of photos, audio clips, wallpapers etc.

Onyx 2007 campus fest at Kottayam

College of Engineering Poonjar, Kottayam is organizing its annual technical and arts festival called Onyx 07. The events are scheduled at mammen mappilla hall on 15th and 16th February.
Main events are - video choreography, nostalgia, adapt tune, western music, paper presentation, web designing, circuit designing, code debugging.

Stories for children by Achayan

Achayan (Joseph Narimattom) has started a new blog featuring adventure stories for children. He has started off with the novel “Valley of the Mountain Goddess”,
The bus was late. It screeched to a halt like a hot and panting horse. A handful of passengers got down hurriedly, the bus crew almost shoving them down into the [...]

Free Malayalam software for Windows

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 [...]

Download 2007 Malayalam calendar as a PDF

Check out this cool free Malayalam calendar for 2007 from Kerala Kaumudi. It is copy of the real calendar and can be printed. Please note that this is a 1.5MB PDF file.
Update: 2008 Malayalam Calendar can be downloaded here.

Treehouse at Green Magic Resort, Vythiri, North kerala.

Are you planning a vacation or trip to Kerala? Here is one place you don’t want to miss (That is if you have plenty of money :)) - The tree house resort in Vythiri, Wayanad.
Half an hour drive by jeep from Vythiri through coffee and spice plantations leads to the location of tree house. There [...]

Idukki - Land of mountains and waterfalls

Josekutty has created a decent Idukki photo album,

Idukki dam - Power house of Kerala

Did you know that Idukki dam is asia’s largest arch dam? Kerala will be in complete darkness without this dam! Thankfully this dam was built well before enviornmental protection lobby became strong in Kerala.
Don’t miss this dam if you visit Idukki. Now there are restrictions in visiting the dam and people are allowed only during festive seasons. If [...]

Kerala Superstar phenomenon

Currently Amrita TV is running junior superstar - A reality TV program similar to Pop Idol or American Idol. I think its viewership is considerably lower than the original Superstar program. Reason? - Repetition means boredom.
The original program was a phenomenal hit with millions of Malayalis tuning into Amrita TV to watch the program. The [...]

Kerala’s white elephant - KSRTC

KSRTC (Kerala Road Transport Corporation) is one of the worst loss making companies run by Kerala Government. It is making a loss of about 20 crore rupees per month and has a cumulative loss of about 2000 crore rupees! Dismantling this white elephant may solve Kerala’s budget deficit problems!
KSRTC has got a pretty decent looking Website. [...]

Getting Kerala examination results online

Kerala division of National Informatics Centre (NIC) provides all major examination results online. This site also can be used as a portal and provides links to various resources such as application forms and recruitment related information. To ensure access at all times they have put up a mirror site as well. Man! there is even [...]