A cultural and political history of Tamilnadu through its most colourful personalities. The fascinating history of Tamilnadu comes alive in this archive of cultural and political knowledge, thoughtfully assembled by the prize-winning historian A. R. Venkatachalapathy. From glamorous film stars turned politicians such as Jayalalithaa and M. G. Ramachandran to a revolutionary anti-caste movement that began over a century ago and the ongoing struggle against Hindi hegemony, Tamilnadu has at once reshaped the mainstream and profoundly influenced the trajectory of the nation. As informative as it is entertaining, Tamil Characters is an essential deep dive into the modern history of India’s most idiosyncratic state.

The latest trends in information technology represent a new intellectual paradigm for scientific exploration and the visualization of scientific phenomena. This title covers the emerging technologies in the field. Academics, engineers, industrialists, scientists and researchers engaged in teaching, and research and development of computer science and information technology will find the book useful for their academic and research work.

This volume contains 73 papers presented at CSI 2014: Emerging ICT for Bridging the Future: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India. The convention was held during 12-14, December, 2014 at Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This volume contains papers mainly focused on Fuzzy Systems, Image Processing, Software Engineering, Cyber Security and Digital Forensic, E-Commerce, Big Data, Cloud Computing and ICT applications.

This book aims to outline current Tamil Computing technologies available around us in the present context to all participants like students, academicians, researchers and others who are interested in this field. Most of the books available in the market deal with Natural Language Processing, specifically English Language Processing. Therefore, the author hopes this book will be of utmost use to the undergraduate, postgraduate and researchers. This book provides an overall picture of Tamil Computing, covering different aspects. Specifically, starting with the basics of Tamil, Tamil Computing, Coding standards, fonts, keyboards, issues related to it, morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Tamil, Tools and resources and applications of Tamil Computing in detail. The purpose of this book is also to give an insight into Tamil Handwritten character recognition and Speech processing in detail. Automatic Speech Recognition in one of the critical issues in any language. Recognizing handwritten characters using a machine is necessary in today's modern world. A computer system should be intelligent enough to receive and interpret the handwritten input. These two aspects are explained in detail. This book elaborates on the existing corporate packages like MS-Office and its usage in Tamil, Database Processing and open Tamil. The book also explains input-outputting methods in detail with simple python programs. The use of the MS Windows Operating System is widespread worldwide in different languages. This book describes the practices of customization of MS Windows software for Tamil. Usage of the MS Windows Operating System is famous worldwide in other languages. This book has also added details concerning Indic Libraries and Large Language Models.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.