हिंदी !!

I discovered this nice tool from google which extends their transliteration services to other websites as well.
It is really exciting for multilingual people like me ... and immediately I tried it on Facebook and it worked quite well!!

Where this falls short at the moment is on CMS based website editing ... or even Blogger itself. Here I could type only title in Hindi and on the main content this tool is not operational.

I hope google's Indic Transliteration team can solve this and then atleast half a billion people would have new reason to get on to the net !!

Link for the tool : http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_hi.html

This works for other indian languages as well

• Bookmarklet for Arabic.
• Bookmarklet for Bengali.
• Bookmarklet for Gujarati.
• Bookmarklet for Hindi.
• Bookmarklet for Kannada.
• Bookmarklet for Malayalam.
• Bookmarklet for Marathi.
• Bookmarklet for Nepali.
• Bookmarklet for Tamil.
• Bookmarklet for Telugu.

Taliban, Maoists ... same things but different names

Driving and thinking is not advisable but this morning while BBC was going on and on about how America now suddenly views Pakistan as a problem, this thought crossed my mind. If we all look at the fundamental level Talibanism, Maoism or any other "ism" comes from dissatisfaction with the ruling regimes.

All these movements start as small pebbles thrown in the water and as the size of the pebble becomes bigger ripples become disconcerting waves crashing on the shores. Slowly the nuisance turns into nemesis. The mere power in the hands of dissatisfied lot becomes a justification for their survival, ideology then becomes unimportant and safeguarding power becomes paramount.

Noble Islam gets turned into Talibanism, fight for justice for the poor becomes Maoism ... and if we as citizens keep ignoring the welfare for fellow citizens then we should brace ourselves for the next ism in our neighbourhood.