Tamil nationalism a moderating force to religious politics
I share an article arguing that Tamil nationalism acts as a moderating force against religious politics in South India, explaining how linguistic identity prevents the Hindutva movement from gaining significant political ground in the region.
I built a Tamil spelling corrector based on Peter Norvig’s algorithm to fix transliterated song lyrics. I used Project Madurai as a dictionary source and explored probabilistic methods to map phonetic English spellings to correct Tamil words.
I tracked the top daily Google Trends searches in India over several years. I've shared the dataset and am crowdsourcing the categorization of these searches to identify trends across business, entertainment, and politics for future visualization.
I built a JavaScript tool to transliterate English typing into Tamil script. It uses a phonetic mapping system for vowels and consonants, supports copy-pasting into documents, and includes a Google Gadget for searching the web in Tamil.
I received a translated Calvin and Hobbes comic in Tamil from Pratap Vardhan as a birthday gift. It is my favorite gift this year, highlighting a creative linguistic adaptation of the classic comic strip.
I use Excel's NORMINV function and scatterplots to visualize how moderating school marks works. I demonstrate a scaling formula that adjusts means and standard deviations to make internal and public exam scores comparable across different difficulty levels.