Google India has introduced language transliteration bookmarklets for 5 Indian languages: Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil & Telugu. I've seen instances of people typing out their e-mails at the Transliteration page, and then copy-pasting the text in their email. With bookmarklets, this will no longer be necessary, and users can type in Indic languages on any website. The bookmarklets currently work for Chrome (version 2 and above), Safari (version 4 and above), Internet Explorer (version 6 and above) and Firefox (version 3 and above). While this is a feature that may get restricted to more tech savvy, it does make it ridiculously easy to type in local languages in any website. Over time, this will help increase both content creation and communication in Indian languages. Do note that Google provides transliteration on its website in other South Asian languages - Bengali, Gujarati,…
