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How one uses Lipikaar - Applications and Examples

Lipikaar is comprehensive. While building it, we considered it's scope of usage and how can it grow in this diverse Indian populace.

For you to get a clearer picture, we present a few examples on how the information age can spread in India. The characters expressed in the following examples are fictitious. Any resemblance to any person(s) living or dead is purely coincidental. Even if there is a coincidence, please take it in the right spirit.

1. Ramaswami uses the Kannada Notepad

Mr. Ramaswami Venkatappagowda Puttappa worked for 30 years as an accountant to raise his son Darshanam Putappa, get him into the Mysore University to become a doctor and send him to the states. His son gave him a unique gift on his last birthday, a new laptop, with the Lipikaar Desktop Application.

Mr. Puttappa has learned how to use Notepad with Lipikaar!

Ramaswami uses the Kannada Notepad

2. Badshah Mirza and Shadab Mirza, Mumbai-Dubai on Yahoo! Messenger

Badshah in Dubai and his brother Shadab in Mumbai have found an easy way to communicate business matters with each other in Urdu. According to them the thoughts can be expressed really well using Instant Messengers.

They use the Lipikaar Desktop Version and keep Urdu enabled for all internet applications.

Badshah Mirza and Shadab Mirza, Mumbai-Dubai on Yahoo! Messenger

3. Mani Ben is on Orkut!

Orkut has become so popular in India, that Mani Ben saw her daughter Hetal's activities on the social network, and decided to have a profile for herself! Mani Ben can only read, write and speak Gujarati.

Now she scraps on Orkut using the Free Lipikaar Firefox Extension.

Mani Ben is on Orkut!

4. Murganandan Iyer and Srinivasa Ramaswamy, discuss on MSN live Messenger

Muruganandan and Srinivasa have to speak in Tamil. These are net-savvy scholars are well versed with English, but hate the use of the language everywhere. Especially when it comes to philosophical discussions. Srinivasa says, "The English people can neither understand Tamil, nor can they understand life!".

But now, they use the Lipikaar Desktop Plugin to discuss in Tamil with each other.

Murganandan Iyer and Srinivasa Ramaswamy, discuss on MSN live Messenger

5. Divyakumari Shetty is an expert at Telugu Excel input

Divyakumari has found her own way to make checklists in Microsoft Excel. Since her employees couldn't understand her spreadsheets in English, she used to have a hard time explaining them specific details.

Today, all her employees are happy because Divya has started using the Lipikaar Desktop Plugin for Telugu Excel sheets!

Divyakumari Shetty is an expert at Telugu Excel input

6. Mukundkumar Pawarsaheb has been making Marathi presentations

Mukund saheb is the Sarpanch (head) of a village in Maharashtra. He has big plots of farming land and his job often involves analyzing crops, weather forecasting and other agricultural techniques. He has to make presentations to the Government officials for getting loans sanctioned and for buying more property.

Last few times, he really impressed everyone with his meticulous presentations made with Lipikaar and Microsoft Powerpoint, in Marathi!


Mukundkumar Pawarsaheb has been making Marathi presentations
Mukundkumar Pawarsaheb has been making Marathi presentations

7. Raagesh Menon sends Malayalam love poems to Ammani Nair using Gmail

Raagesh is tech savvy, he always wanted to get a software that could ease his Malayalam typing efforts. To be precise, his Mallu flirting efforts. He likes the local girl Ammani, who is more impressed with Malayalam poetry.

Raagesh now uses the free Lipikaar Firefox Extension to send his poems through gmail.


Raagesh Menon sends Malayalam love poems to Ammani Nair using Gmail

8. Raju Srivastav and Gajodhar Mishra on Gtalk

Even villages in UP make use of Lipikaar to communicate effectively. They prefer it because there is no scope for physical violence.

Raju and his Chacha are making full use of the Lipikaar Firefox extension to chat using GTalk!

Raju Srivastav and Gajodhar Mishra on Gtalk
Tags:   Feature · Arabic · Bengali · Devanagari · Gujarati · Hindi · Kannada · Malayalam · Punjabi · Sindhi · Tamil · Telugu · Urdu

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