The seed for Azhagi was sown in 1999 and it was developed against very many odds, under torturous health conditions, to provide the Tamil-speaking diaspora with a software that will benefit them immensely, in an exceedingly user-friendly manner.
Apart from my family/friends/relatives, I convey from the bottom of my heart, my "total" indebtedness to the following (not in any specific order) too, without whose tremendous moral support and/or encouragement, in one way or other, at 'different stages and periods' (* see footnote) of Azhagi's evolution, Azhagi would not have reached this level and benefitted users worldwide.
Dr. Azhaganandam, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai.
Dr. Gopal, Sooriya Hospital, Chennai.
Director Shri.Visu (Former Convener - Arattai Arangam, SUN TV) and his team, Chennai.
Mr. P.S. Ranganathan (alias 'kadugu'), Fontographist, kadugu@gmail.com, Chennai.
Mr. Venkat Mani, www.venkydude.com, Mumbai.
Special Note: Mr. P.S. Ranganathan (kadugu) is not only a well-known humour writer but also a highly skilled fontographist. All of Azhagi's exquisite Sai fonts (SaiIndira, Sai-Sai and SaiMeera) are his wonderful makings only. I am EVER grateful to him for his great help, right at the time of my pressing need in Jan 2002 and his continued wishes/encouragement thereafter. He might have nicknamed himself as 'kadugu' but his heart is indeed akin to 'Himalayas'. I stand ever grateful to Mr.Venkat Mani too who created keys.dll (which helps to lock keyboard inputs) which I renamed as venkeys.dll to honour Venkey's monumental help.
Mr. S. Visweswaran, theproudindian_2000@yahoo.co.in, Canada.
Mr. Achalam, Mumbai.
Mr. A.K. Rajagopalan, editor, www.mazhalaigal.com.
Ms. Aruna, Jaipur.
Ms. Gayathri, Pondycherry.
Mr. Natarajan Kalpattu, Chennai.
Mr. Venkatram Shrinivas, Bangalore.
Mr. N. Suresh, Chennai.
Mr. Halasya Sundar, Chennai.
Mr. Koteshwar, Secunderabad.
Mr. Pushpa Raghavan, Chennai.
Mr. Balu, sslindia.org, Chennai.
Mr. Anthony Muthu, Chennai.
Mr. Thayumanavan, Chennai.
Mr. B. Sivakumar, Larsen & Toubro LTM Business Unit, Chennai.
Mr. S.P. Ramamurthy, Larsen & Toubro LTM Business Unit, Chennai.
Mr. Ganesh Chandra, tamiloviam.com, New Jersey.
Special Note: azhagi.com got registered in Sep 2002, thanks to the initiative of Ganesh Chandra, editor of tamiloviam.com. He was persistent that I should register a dot com site in the name 'azhagi' (since my software is named 'azhagi') and one fine day went ahead and registered it all by himself. Ganesh (along with dear 'halwacity' Vijay) later went on to find the best webhost (lunarpages) for azhagi.com and saw azhagi.com up and going in Dec 2002. I did not have to move even a single finger for all this. What a thoughtful and timely help it was at that time! My HEARTY thanks ever!
Mr. Sakthidasan, London.
Mr. Cisro, Kanyakumari.
Mr. Pollachi Nasan, thamizham.net
Mr. Albert Fernando, USA
Mr. Hare Krishna Mani, Canada.
Mr. Vijayaraghavan, USA.
Ms. Vathsala Shivakumar, Cairo.
Mr. Vijay Jawaharlal, halwacity.com.
Mr. Prabhu Anand, Singapore.
Mr. Rajavel, Chennai.
Mr. Santosh, CTS, Chennai.
Mr. V.Chandrasekaran, Nokia, USA.
Mr. Khalil Ahamed, Malaysia.
Mr. N. Subramanian, Manager(Systems), Kalki Weekly, Chennai.
Mr. N.S. Kumar, Qatar.
Mr. P. Srivatsan, L&T (LTM Business Unit), Chennai.
Mr. R. Suresh, Salem
Mr. Loganathan, Thirunelveli.
Mr. Muzafar Ghani, Paediatrician, Kuwait.
Mr. Ramakrishnan Thanimalai, Technologist, Malaysia.
Mr. Arivan, Malaysia.
Mr. Ram, Corporate Communication, Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Chennai.
Mr. Shankar, Management Consultant, Bangalore.
Mr. M. Vedha Manikandan, Chennai.
Mr.Sathyam, Editor, tamilnation.org
Mr. Ramachandran, Special Correspondent, 'The Hindu', Chennai.
Mr. Chandramouli, Freelance Reporter, Chennai.
Mr. Prince Frederick, Reporter, 'The Hindu', Chennai.
Mr. Senthil Kumar, Program Manager (Namma Oor Vignani), SUN TV, Chennai.
Mr. Shivalkar, Program Manager (Kaalai Malar), Jaya TV, Chennai.
Mr. Siddhiq, Mr.Ashraf and Mr.Nisar of 'thamizhootru' magazine, Chennai.
Thanks to all the azhagi users worldwide who have been a pillar of support. Thanks to those loving wishes and prayers from Tamil brothers and sisters across the globe, over email and/or phone, which keeps me enhancing Azhagi amidst my daily obstacles.
Special thanks to :
Jordan Russell - for his excellent and free Innosetup (jrsoftware.org) s/w with which only all of Azhagi's Setup.exe files have been generated so far.
Sheshadrivasu (the author of the well-known Indian languages word processor Baraha) - for his clear-cut help topics on all major Indian languages.
Vizacc.com - for their excellent and most wonderful HTML Helpmaker. Creating html help files had never been so easy and 100% free.
Microsoft - for their Unicode fonts, Unicode processing engines, etc.
Unicode.org - for Unicode charts, etc.
The developers of various other free softwares without whose efforts I may not be effecting certain routine tasks of the Windows OS in such an easier and faster manner.
(*) This means that some of the persons mentioned above might have even forgotten me, having offered their help or moral support at some distant point of time in the past. But, their help at that point of time was invaluable to me and it is remembered with deep gratitude.
If anybody feels that I have still missed out to mention certain persons, then it is purely unintentional and I shall feel sorry for my forgetfulness. You may feel free to contact me in this regard.
Kind regards
B.Viswanathan
Apart from my family/friends/relatives, I convey from the bottom of my heart, my "total" indebtedness to the following (not in any specific order) too, without whose tremendous moral support and/or encouragement, in one way or other, at 'different stages and periods' (* see footnote) of Azhagi's evolution, Azhagi would not have reached this level and benefitted users worldwide.
Dr. Azhaganandam, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai.
Dr. Gopal, Sooriya Hospital, Chennai.
Director Shri.Visu (Former Convener - Arattai Arangam, SUN TV) and his team, Chennai.
Mr. P.S. Ranganathan (alias 'kadugu'), Fontographist, kadugu@gmail.com, Chennai.
Mr. Venkat Mani, www.venkydude.com, Mumbai.
Special Note: Mr. P.S. Ranganathan (kadugu) is not only a well-known humour writer but also a highly skilled fontographist. All of Azhagi's exquisite Sai fonts (SaiIndira, Sai-Sai and SaiMeera) are his wonderful makings only. I am EVER grateful to him for his great help, right at the time of my pressing need in Jan 2002 and his continued wishes/encouragement thereafter. He might have nicknamed himself as 'kadugu' but his heart is indeed akin to 'Himalayas'. I stand ever grateful to Mr.Venkat Mani too who created keys.dll (which helps to lock keyboard inputs) which I renamed as venkeys.dll to honour Venkey's monumental help.
Mr. S. Visweswaran, theproudindian_2000@yahoo.co.in, Canada.
Mr. Achalam, Mumbai.
Mr. A.K. Rajagopalan, editor, www.mazhalaigal.com.
Ms. Aruna, Jaipur.
Ms. Gayathri, Pondycherry.
Mr. Natarajan Kalpattu, Chennai.
Mr. Venkatram Shrinivas, Bangalore.
Mr. N. Suresh, Chennai.
Mr. Halasya Sundar, Chennai.
Mr. Koteshwar, Secunderabad.
Mr. Pushpa Raghavan, Chennai.
Mr. Balu, sslindia.org, Chennai.
Mr. Anthony Muthu, Chennai.
Mr. Thayumanavan, Chennai.
Mr. B. Sivakumar, Larsen & Toubro LTM Business Unit, Chennai.
Mr. S.P. Ramamurthy, Larsen & Toubro LTM Business Unit, Chennai.
Mr. Ganesh Chandra, tamiloviam.com, New Jersey.
Special Note: azhagi.com got registered in Sep 2002, thanks to the initiative of Ganesh Chandra, editor of tamiloviam.com. He was persistent that I should register a dot com site in the name 'azhagi' (since my software is named 'azhagi') and one fine day went ahead and registered it all by himself. Ganesh (along with dear 'halwacity' Vijay) later went on to find the best webhost (lunarpages) for azhagi.com and saw azhagi.com up and going in Dec 2002. I did not have to move even a single finger for all this. What a thoughtful and timely help it was at that time! My HEARTY thanks ever!
Mr. Sakthidasan, London.
Mr. Cisro, Kanyakumari.
Mr. Pollachi Nasan, thamizham.net
Mr. Albert Fernando, USA
Mr. Hare Krishna Mani, Canada.
Mr. Vijayaraghavan, USA.
Ms. Vathsala Shivakumar, Cairo.
Mr. Vijay Jawaharlal, halwacity.com.
Mr. Prabhu Anand, Singapore.
Mr. Rajavel, Chennai.
Mr. Santosh, CTS, Chennai.
Mr. V.Chandrasekaran, Nokia, USA.
Mr. Khalil Ahamed, Malaysia.
Mr. N. Subramanian, Manager(Systems), Kalki Weekly, Chennai.
Mr. N.S. Kumar, Qatar.
Mr. P. Srivatsan, L&T (LTM Business Unit), Chennai.
Mr. R. Suresh, Salem
Mr. Loganathan, Thirunelveli.
Mr. Muzafar Ghani, Paediatrician, Kuwait.
Mr. Ramakrishnan Thanimalai, Technologist, Malaysia.
Mr. Arivan, Malaysia.
Mr. Ram, Corporate Communication, Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Chennai.
Mr. Shankar, Management Consultant, Bangalore.
Mr. M. Vedha Manikandan, Chennai.
Mr.Sathyam, Editor, tamilnation.org
Mr. Ramachandran, Special Correspondent, 'The Hindu', Chennai.
Mr. Chandramouli, Freelance Reporter, Chennai.
Mr. Prince Frederick, Reporter, 'The Hindu', Chennai.
Mr. Senthil Kumar, Program Manager (Namma Oor Vignani), SUN TV, Chennai.
Mr. Shivalkar, Program Manager (Kaalai Malar), Jaya TV, Chennai.
Mr. Siddhiq, Mr.Ashraf and Mr.Nisar of 'thamizhootru' magazine, Chennai.
Thanks to all the azhagi users worldwide who have been a pillar of support. Thanks to those loving wishes and prayers from Tamil brothers and sisters across the globe, over email and/or phone, which keeps me enhancing Azhagi amidst my daily obstacles.
Special thanks to :
Jordan Russell - for his excellent and free Innosetup (jrsoftware.org) s/w with which only all of Azhagi's Setup.exe files have been generated so far.
Sheshadrivasu (the author of the well-known Indian languages word processor Baraha) - for his clear-cut help topics on all major Indian languages.
Vizacc.com - for their excellent and most wonderful HTML Helpmaker. Creating html help files had never been so easy and 100% free.
Microsoft - for their Unicode fonts, Unicode processing engines, etc.
Unicode.org - for Unicode charts, etc.
The developers of various other free softwares without whose efforts I may not be effecting certain routine tasks of the Windows OS in such an easier and faster manner.
(*) This means that some of the persons mentioned above might have even forgotten me, having offered their help or moral support at some distant point of time in the past. But, their help at that point of time was invaluable to me and it is remembered with deep gratitude.
If anybody feels that I have still missed out to mention certain persons, then it is purely unintentional and I shall feel sorry for my forgetfulness. You may feel free to contact me in this regard.
Kind regards
B.Viswanathan
