Our vision is to make technology compelling and universally appealing to Indians. We've taken a small step with Lipikaar, a simplified typing method for both monolingual and bilingual users. The tool is designed to encourage extensive usage of Indic languages beyond a casual remark or a phrase. For example, typing a document, an article, an email, a presentation, a blog - all of these currently happen in English because we have a mechanical typing method (keyboard).

We wanted to provide a method that's as close as it can get to being simple and powerful without removing the keyboard thus making it suitable for the Web and the Desktop. Lipikaar's approach allows it to scale across languages therefore it is the only tool in the world that supported over 15 languages at launch.

Insist on your language. Let's make sure the the computer does not hamper our expression.

Who is behind Lipikaar?

Anjali Gupta: She started with Persistent in Pune. In 2000, she founded Emphatech, a startup in the instant messaging domain. She has also worked with web and e-commerce companies, Netegrity Inc. in Boston, and Amazon.com in Seattle. She has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from College of Engineering (Pune).

Santosh Dawara: He has worked with Persistent Systems, Pune, Research in Motion, Seattle and Internet startup TeamOn Systems, Seattle. Santosh has a Masters in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T, USA) and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from University of Pune.

Neha Gupta: Neha leads the engineering and core development activities at Lipikaar. Neha started her career with Great Software Laboratory in Pune. She has worked with several web technologies such as Java, AJAX and PHP. She later moved to BookEazy Technologies Pvt Ltd where she led the engineering team for online portals, language plugins for browsers, and website translation management engines. Neha holds a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, where she stood first in the graduating class.

Jugal Gupta: Lipikaar's typing method was invented and patented by Jugal Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Databyte Equipment Private Limited, a reputed technology company in India. He has been working in Indian languages since 1989. Jugal completed his B.Tech from I.I.T (Delhi) and spent several years with Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (T.I.F.R) before co-founding Databyte with his wife, Sharayu Gupta, a gold medalist in Electronics and Telecommunications, from College of Engineering Pune (C.O.E.P.). Databyte was the first to introduce Bilingual Telex and Teleprinters in India, and Stand-alone Moving Text Displays for all Indian languages along with a range of other display and telecommunication products.