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You can convert any Indian language to another Indian language
using the magician Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan's software at baraha.com

I would like the name

Shri Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan

creator of unique software 'Baraha' (meaning 'Write') to figure proudly in the headlines of Indian News Media, at least as a refreshing change from stale politics/movie gossip/crime reporting. Perhaps it will when it receives prestigious award and makes news in Europe and US.

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Baraha (means "writing" in Indian language called Kannada, which is the mother tongue of Shri Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan) is in use since 1998.
Software Baraha is an example of Typical Indian Culture where Genius and Generosity, Intelligent and Intense Workmanship go to generate Unique Creative Application that is Given to all, in Spirit of Dedication, with Indian hallmark of humbleness, as seen in its Low Profile, that is being bereft of jazzy advertisement or marketing gimmicks (like 'No. 1 on Bestseller list'). This is Baraha (meaning 'writing'), a sophisticated creation of Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan of India that transliterates one Indian language to another Indian language.


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Baraha means 'writing' in Kannada. Baraha is a transliteration based application which converts 'Indian language text written in English' to their own respective scripts.
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The first release of Baraha software was made on January 1998. This initial release was developed with an intention to provide a free, easy to use Kannada language software to enable even non-computer professionals to use Kannada in computers thereby promoting Kannada language in the cyber world. Today hundreds of thousands of Indians are using Baraha for sending e-mails to friends & family across the world in their mother tongue. Many websites have been created using Baraha. Various Indian organizations around the world are publishing their newsletters using Baraha. Government & private offices, schools, litterateurs, journalists are among those who have been using Baraha for documentation purposes.

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The biggest challenge for use of Indian languages is the keyboard. At present, usage of English language & English keyboard(QWERTY) in computers is inevitable. One has to use the English keyboard only to type Indian language text. Today, there exist many different keyboard layouts for typing Indian languages.

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Baraha fonts in Kannada, Tamil, Telgu, Malayalam, Gujrathi, Gurumukhi, Bengali, Oriya, Devnagri, which includes Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi

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Many such layouts are based on the earlier typewriter designs, which are not at all relevant for the intelligent computers. It is also very difficult and confusing for a common user, who most of the time uses the English keyboard, to switch to one such keyboard for quickly typing an email in Kannada or Hindi.

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Baraha breaks the keyboard barrier for Indian languages by using a transliteration scheme in which any Indian language word may be typed using the standard English keyboard. Baraha user doesn't feel any discomfort when he switches between typing Indian language text and English. In fact, writing in Baraha is as simple and easy as writing our names in English! Kannada and Hindi text such as cheluva kannaDa nADu, merA bhArat mahAn can be typed as shown.
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Many Indian language software were created based on True Type fonts (ANSI encoding) many years before Windows/Linux re-introduced them using Open Type fonts (Unicode encoding). Even today, majority of the Indian language content is being created using TrueType fonts and almost all Indian publications use ANSI based TrueType fonts for printing and online publications. Baraha breaks the barrier between ANSI and Unicode. Using Baraha, one can effortlessly convert text between ANSI and Unicode. For example, there are a lot of Tamil documents that are created using True Type fonts based on TSCII - which is a popular standard for Tamil. These documents can be converted to Unicode with a few keystrokes! Similarly, when a user on Windows 98 - that doesn't support Unicode, receives a Hindi email in Unicode, he can convert it to ANSI and read it.

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Baraha breaks the script barrier between different Indian languages. All the Indian scripts are derived from the Brahmi script, which is also the underlying concept in Baraha. Baraha uses a common code (BRHCODE) for representing all the Indian languages. So, it is possible to convert text from one script to another. For example, lets say a Malayalam user who understands Hindi language receives a Hindi email. If the user is not fluent in reading Devanagari script, then he can convert the email to Malayalam script and read it.

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One of the main objectives of Baraha is "portability of data". Baraha can export the data in various data formats such as ANSI text, Unicode text, RTF, HTML. User can convert documents to Unicode format by a few clicks of mouse, which means the documents that are created in Baraha, stay relevant in the future and will never become obsolete.

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"Language is not just a means of communication. Instead, it is the only means that can save the culture of its people."

Baraha was made freeware in order to motivate Indians to communicate in their languages on computers. We believe that only an easy to use, good quality, free Indian language software can jump-start the extensive usage of Indian language on computers, which today is dominated by English. Baraha may be freely downloaded and distributed to others.

Contact Anakru Foundation
K.T.Chandrasekharan
57, ITI Layout
BSK 3rd Stage
Bengaluru - 560085

#Phone: 26692694
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