Harish Palaniappan's

Indian languages have always given way to English, the business language of the world.

But still in Indian companies, and institutions, informal communications in indian languages are a considerable percentage, compared to formal english commmunications, and sooner or later a huge amount of business on the web, in india, is going to go the indic way.

Already, indian language based blogs are rising in numbers, against the huge english blog following in the country. Thanks to unicode based tools like www.quillpad.com, http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic, which have made the platform for developing content for indian language websites look so easy.. which was a major problem area earlier.

Reading indian language webblogs feels very different and in a way like a soothing feeling for a crave... and its not just me, some of my friends also have expressed similar interests in reading or writing the local tamil language blogs. And remember these are people just like me who havent written anything more than a sentence in tamil in their lives. but know the letters and can read or understand them.

Soon, I think we will see all major indian businesses have one or more indian language versions of their websites, and slowly this seems to open up big opportunities.

To dream about, If web content were in indian languages, may be it can add to bridging the technology divide between the villages and cities in india which indians have long been yearning for, to take advantage of technology, to boost growth in the lower strata of india and also to breath more power into marketplace.. why marketplace, because many big industries are still only in villages / towns rather than major cities, like the agriculture industry, like diary products, like farm manure and supplies, even a major portion of the textile industry, and many others.

Typing in Tamil, Hindi or other indian languages.. is easy through below links.
All you do is type the equivalent of the language word in english.. and the applications below translate that into the language text in unicode. You can then copy the language text and paste in your web blog or email or any unicode supported software (like in any latest browsers).

www.quillpad.com
http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic

Read detailed about Unicode in my earlier post:
Can your computer process your language