How to Blog in Hindi

In case you are wondering, how I type Sanskrit in my blogs, let me share with you the knowhow. Well Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit are written in Devanagri script.

Most bloggers of Indian origin are English speaking and are more comfortable with Querty than Indic keyboard.

Eons ago, the Department of Information Technology had funded a project with IIT Kanpur, called GIST. Now CDAC carries the torch. It resulted in LIPI and ISCI . It is now dated. Only die hard Don Quixotes of IT at government funded agencies use it. No more used in real life.

In-fact we burned a few Lakhs of rupees in consulting and Indian language conversion with CDAC, and got zilch result. But what paid off is their brand name that sells in the Banking segment.

But if you are not into politics of IT sales, then what's the technology you should go for?

The technology is Unicode. Both Windows, Linux and Solaris support it.

Best and simplest of all you can type in English and transliterate it in Hindi! That's what Google supports, see: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/now-you-can-blog-in-hindi.html

Also checkout ITRANS, which is the original technology on which Google is based.

But what's under the hood? Good question :)

Check out my test page at : http://ash.banerjee.googlepages.com/dev2uni.html

The Java source code is available there. In-fact, by changing just a few lines of code, Inheritance in Java speak, I could make it work for Bengali and Punjabi! That's the beauty of Indian languages.

By the way Sanskrit is the most scientific language ever spoken. And A.A.Mcdonald in his Sanskrit grammar book wrote that Sanskrit is at-least 200 years ahead of English. And Panini was the world's first grammarian!

Now go and Blog in Hindi.

Wealth of Knowledge by Bhamini

Here is a Sanskrit shloka attibuted to Bhamini's Sabhatarangini:

न चोरहार्यं न च राजहार्यं न भ्रातृभाज्यं न च भारकारि।
व्यये कृते वर्धत एव नित्यम् विद्याधनं सर्वधनप्रधानं।।

It cannot be stolen by the thieves or the kings, nor can brothers divide it and it is burden less. Every time its is spent it grows. Knowledge is indeed the supreme wealth.
Sabhatarangini by Bhaamini