Thoughts of Periyar goes hi-tech; Now Its On Your Mobile

CHENNAI, India 16 June 2007, A team of young entrepreneurs from Technology Business Incubator cell of VIT University, Vellore have released a free mobile book on “Periyar Movement” and a mobile website for the tamil movie “Periyar”.

Mobile Book on Periyar Movement

This book contains the life history of Periyar. The content for the book is provided by Dravidar Kazhagam and the book could be downloaded from the website www.periyar.org/mbook and can be transferred between mobile phones through bluetooth or infrared. The mobile book can be read on any java enabled mobile handset. This will work on most of the Mobile phones available in the market today.

First Tamil Movie on Mobile Website

The Periyar movie has shown the life of our greatest leader to today’s youngsters. The website on information of the movie Periyar is at www.periyar.org/movie. The website can be browsed on any internet enabled mobile phone.

Liberty Creations Limited, producers of the movie have expressed their gladness on having a wap site developed for the movie.

Various patrons of the legendary leader are of the opinion that modern tools like websites and mobile technologies should be used for educating today’s younger generation on life of our country’s greatest leaders and freedom fighters. Games and entertainment on mobile devices should only be next priority than acquiring quality knowledge.