"Idli" originated in Indonesia???

Today, I was reading this article from the India Today & suprised to see that Idly was originated from Indonesia. Further googling caught me this blog which says that Idly might have been brought to South India by the silk weavers of Saurashtra (or Sourashtra).

Gujarati origin
Gujarat have IDADA which is steamed dhokla made from same ingredients as Idly.Namely Urad dhaal and Rice which are fermented overnight and next day steamed.Gujarathis claim Idaly is a dish which came to south from Gujarat during 10/12th century AD.when lot of silk weavers from saurashtra came to south via Maharashtra.The dukkia is first mentioned in AD 1068 in Gujurathi Jain literature, and dhokla appears in AD 1520 in the Varanaka Samuchaya. Besan flour is fermented overnight with curd, and steamed in slabs which are then cut into pieces and dressed with fresh coriander leaves, fried mustard seeds and coconut shreds. A coarser version is khaman and both are popular breakfast and snack foods in Gujurat. But we have to note that Gujart was ruled by chalukyas and Rastrakutas for many centuries before that and Idada may be from iddalige. Since we dont find references to that before that.

Being a "Sourashthrian" (I also belong to the Silk Weavers Community), I'm proud of this fact. If it had not been our ancestors, the Sounth Indian's would not have got this great South Indian dish.

The 100 million club

Being working in a mobile software development field, I'm always enthusiastic about software products which is extremely successful.

Today, I happened to come across an article "The 100 million Club" which lists down the software products which have been embedded on more than 100 million embedded devices.

• I was quite surprised to see that Flashlite is getting embedded in huge numbers of devices. (May be its time for me/other mobile developers to get acquainted with Flashlite. New oppurtunity might be hidden).
  
• The number one position goes to "T9". If the Nuance successfully acquires some Zi Corporation, then Nuance would get a near monopoly in the mobile text input software. (I wish to create a product which achieves near monopoly).
  
• ENEA OSE & Mentor Graphics Nucleus has been shipped in more than the Symbian devices. May be, next year, lot of Android devices would get shipped & Android would also find a place in 100 million club.
• Happy to see that Qualcomm BREW (the platform in which I work) is also in the top 25 products.

Apart from the above list, Vision mobile has compiled a pretty good atlas(!) of all mobile software products.

-bluegeneguy