Script for the South? Revisiting Saraswati Lipi’s promise of linguistic convergence

A forgotten proposal from a Mysuru seminar reopens debate on whether Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam can share a streamlined writing system ...
Al Jazeera English

The long and ‘joyous’ road to revive Nepal’s ancient taboo scripts

Kathmandu, Nepal – Dressed in an orange kurta (loose collarless tunic) and a matching Nepali dhaka waistcoat, Lalima Shrestha pulls a brown plastic chair closer to a makeshift table made from a table ...
Business Line

Breathing new life into forgotten scripts

A piece of land titled ‘Thakur Dwara’ was allotted, in Samvat 1737, to the Goswami family of Swarghat village in Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur district, by Raja Vijay Chandra. But when Chandermani ...
Hindustan Times

MP: Twitteratis take up the cause of 1,500-year-old ‘shankha lipi’

A few surviving examples of 1,500-year-old shell script (shankha lipi) in the neglected rock shelters of Manua Bhan ki Tekri have been brought to focus by #Bhopalwalk, a Twitter-based initiative to ...
Indiatimes

‘Modi lipi’ course starts at SUK

Kolhapur: Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj history study center of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur is offering a week-long course in ‘Modi lipi’, which is a six-century old early Marathi script. According ...