Before revision:  Our code is published in github at URL
After revision:  We achieved a weighted average F1 score of 0.77 for Tamil-English using a Logistic Regression based model after the task deadline. This performance betters the top ranked classifier on this dataset by a wide margin. Our use of language-specific Soundex to harmonise the spelling variants in code-mixed data appears to be a novel application of Soundex. Our complete code is published in github at URL