Happy Pongal - A Short History (from my mailbox message extract)

Pongal 2010 is on January 14, Thursday 

Harvest festival of Pongal falls falls in the month of January after the winter solstice. The date of the festival is derived from Solar Calendar hence it usually remains same. For Hindus the date of Pongal is extremely auspicious and astronomically significant. Around January 14, every year sun begins its six-months-long journey northwards or in Uttarayan  and moves into the zodiac Capricorn or Makaram Rashi.  

Doodle – கிறுகல்கள்

While orkuting i seen the community named “doodle”. When i search for the meaning in a search engine it directs me to Wikipedia page which answers me as below.

A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. They are simple drawings which can have a meaning, a shape or just irregular forms. This activity is normally made during long or boring classes as the students begin daydreaming or losing interest or talking by telephone for a long period of time.

My understanding in Tamil is கிறுகல்கள். my doodling results to textures of my name.

Digital Dictionaries of Indic languages

Digital South Asia Library(DSAL), A place where collections of regional language dictionaries, it also supports Unicode font system and also transliterate system of search. Here we can get direct English to regional and vice-versa, but in search of English to others lots of entries for your search. For a instance If search is in Tamil Unicode "அன்பு" it gives 145 entries and if it is "Love" than 628 results in Tamil Lexicon Dictionary. There are also multiple dictionaries (or different author's) for single author. Link to dictionary page is here.
Here is a tool to get the Unicode version of the transliterate Tamil words.

Will Hindi as Compulsory 2nd Language, closes communication gap?

As Hindi is National Language, Making Hindi as Compulsory Second Language in all states of India may close the communication gap between the peoples of states. Now English is used as the communicator for the communication between the central and the states of India and also extensively as a second language. English is international language accepted over most of the countries for the communication. Thus to communicate all over the world, English to be Third Language in schooling. Not just to respect the national Language also to communicate with all the peoples of the Indian village it is need to make Hindi as compulsory second language and also to respect the mother tongue (native language) it should not to be dominated by other languages, it is to be first language. As a sequence mother tongue, Hindi & English should respectively be a first, second and third languages for the states not having Hindi as the official language and Hindi & English respectively be a first and second languages for the states having Hindi as their official language. May others languages be replace the third language or additional optional language be added to make comfortable in learning other language. Language attrition should be avoided while implementing the second, third and optional languages.