Many of us are confused regarding the "designated spots" for various Ona-Sadya items in the Ela (Plantain leaf). Our good friend Rakhesh created the above graphic which will address exactly this problem!

These positions identified for various dishes are apparently from a respected ancient text book, which is out of print now :) With the help of this, we were able to serve the Sadya (feast) with text-book precision and even Grandmas couldn't find fault with it!

I was looking for an easy way write Malayalam in Gmail using standard english
keyboard and learnt that GMAIL has features which we can turn-on to
enable "transliteration" - that is you type the Malayalam word in English and it
will visually convert to Malayalam text! Pretty cool, eh ?!

This is how you do it.. If you haven't tried this out yet, I am sure you will
be surprised how easy it has always been to write in Malayalam!

There is only one step for this :)

Step 1: Gmail--> Settings--> Under Language --> Enable Input tools
and choose Malayalam

Here is a 2-min video from Google.
http://www.google.com/intl/ml/inputtools/cloud/products/gmail.html

Enjoy writing in Malayalam with your English keyboard!



 Vijay