Write in Indian Languages using English Alphabets
Wish to send an email to mom in your local language?
Help is here..Now you can write in english and still send the email in your local language.
All you need to do is think in your local language, type the same in english (for e.g. ‘Yeh Blog Mast Hai’ 
, instead of ‘ye’) and that’s it! Quilpad will do the translation for you.
The idea is to type the word (in English) which is phonetically close to the local language.
This is definitely a great product and has hit the market at the right time (when PC/Internet penetration is increasing very significantly).
As of now, Quilpad supports only 5 languages: Hindi, Kannada, Malyalam, Tamil and Telugu.
Quilpad (product of Tachyon technologies) has licensed the product to rediff.com, but you can still use their site to send emails in your local language.
The product, to me looks like in a PoC phase (Proof of Concept), needs more flesh (read *features*); but does have a great potential for the Indian market. One of the major drawback of Quilpad is the lack of support for Mozilla.
Quilpad guys are also working on India specific search engine. Have a look
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About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in.
He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]
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hi
iam new to this blog writing so explain how it works
I am from delhi working in govt sector , one of my friend told me about on line writing so I was searching through and saw this site and thought yo join it .
[...] To enable this feature, go to the Settings | Basics page and select “Yes” for the transliteration option. I gave this feature a try and my first reaction was – Awesome!Well done job? ???? ???? ?? ????? Other blogging tools like ibibo,rediff etc. have played with local language support feature, but ended up with a pathetic result. Infact, the only other product that comes close to this is Quilpad. [...]
i neeed to type gujarati and write gujarati
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