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Fiction on your hand-phone!
Anand Parthasarathy
Bangalore:
Bored of playing games on your mobile phone just to pass time? A Kerala-based college professor has released India's first work of fiction that can be read on your mobile phone.
Phone novels — also called SMS novels — have a cult following in Japan, Korea and China. Now, P.R. Harikumar, a lecturer at the Malayalam language department of Sree Sankara College in Kalady, has produced a mobile edition of his 6-chapter novella Neelakkannukal (Blue Eyes). Using a free software, "Readmaniac," he has converted the text into a file format known as "Jar" that can be downloaded on Java-enabled mobile phones. Prof. Harikumar's entire novella in Malayalam fits into a compact 70 kilobyte file.
Earlier this year, Prof. Harikumar created mobile phone versions of the Ramayana in Malayalam and the Thirukkural in Tamil.
He is in discussion with mobile service providers who plan to make this available as a service.
He told The Hindu that Neelakkannukal will shortly be available for free download from his website http://www.prharikumar.com.
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