To whomsoever it may concern

Like Millions of bloggers, i also wanted to have my own page on the Net. finally, i created one for myself. My wish is to write in Hindi. Initially, i was encouraged by the fact that some of my friends had been blogging about a thing and two for sometime now. I 've been following them quite silently - reading their stuff without leaving any comment. Some of them are doing very impressive job. They write exciting things in exciting ways. They draw more comments than a monthly magazine does. But then, there are some problems, like the paucity of new materials. Most of the things that i get to read there is the cycled one - read, reported or refered before. But that is a different story to be told some other time. Quite frankly, i thought the IT revolution has not left even my Hindi untouched - its letters and words being degitised dissolved and morphed in the same stream of bits as the letters and words of other elite languages are. It was Indeed a thing to be proud of. Was'nt it?

However, there have been certain things about Hindi blogs which never appear up to the mark. For, let us take the example of aweful looking cumbersome Hindi font. It seems that the bloggers never have an option to choose his font to match his mood or material. The unproportionate looking Title in Bold does suggest that there is some fundamental Locha (drawback) with the technology. I thought, i would keep my blog as neat and clean as possible However, i realized sooner than later that it was not to be.

First, it is quite difficult to write a blog in Hindi if not impossible, because the software system is not much in favour of it. Its allows you to barely express yourself somehow through translation (transliteration). The software is there to guess what you are writing. It works like a prediction machine. It appears to claim to know before-hand what you are thinking and going to write. But it fails. And fails badly. We bloggers (Hindiwalla) have to bring ourself to terms with this prediction machine. We take the dictates - how to write, what to avoid. It would not be inappropriate to say that the software is dumb and run out of wit in case with many words and sentence formation. Second, the blog's inbuilt Software system does not allow you to cut and paste the material typed in Hindi fonts from some other application on its writing space. Third, it does not allow you to download Hindi font(s) to type as normally as you do with the Egnlish fonts. Now what I am making out of this technical Jhamela are, a.If someone wants to write in Hindi or anyother Indian language, he should be ready to compromise with many words which the given software is unaware of; and b, the knowing of English typing is a must than the typing of the language you want your blog to be published in.
Well, that makes the bloging in Hindi or any Indian language too tiresome.
And, here i am, ... writing this complaint cum request letter to whomsoever it may concern. I wish this letter to fall into somebody's hand who can make the software accept the downloading of Hindi font, or font of any Indian Language, for all practical- typing- purposes, just the way MS Word does.
with hope to write in Hindi soon.
Shyam Anand Jha