Indian Institute of Technology Madras was setup in 1959 by the Government of India and is one of the five institutes started during the fifties and early sixties.

The Acharya Web Site disseminates information relating to computing with Indian languages.

The information presented at this site reflects the experiences gained at the Systems Development Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras.

The software developed as part of IIT effort to take information technology to the people of India, provides a simple and elegant solution to processing information in all the languages of the country in a uniform manner.

IIT madras Acharya Sanskrit is also addresses the needs of the disabled and provides many solutions to help them face the Digital Divide.

IIT madras through Acharya Sanskrit these services are provided:

Learning Resources
References
Online Databases
Online services
Online demos
Tutorials, quizzes
Linguistic resources