AIR script (was NEPALESE news & rituals)

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INDOLOGY, Enrica Garzilli <garzilli@s...> wrote:

 

> Point is that most of the intelligentsia started studying outside of

> South Asia after the revolution, first in England and nowadays

>in the USA. This is due to trade and to cultural reification (to

>use Marx's concept) that need a common language. What is the most

>common anguage nowadays in commerce, computer, films, TV and so on?

>English. No tribute to the British Empire here.

 

Let me air the advantages of using AIR (All India Roman) script here.

Besides being very common and its use spreading all over India,

and instant easy access in the Web, the roman script is very

simple. Many computer programs get developed for Roman script.

Indian scripts are regional and have cluster-letters.

A common script based on Roman script will facilitate national

integration. With computers, we can use diacriticals or in

plain old VT terminals, conventions some standards like

Harvard-Kyoto for Sanskrit and Cologne for Tamil.

 

I understand lot of religion is attached with scripts,

For example, Nagari was promoted for Hindi in place of

Perso-Arabic script. Each state has its own (eg., Gurmukhi

for Punjab) etc., As a start, in these days of computers and Websites,

Central Govt. can start issuing documents, memos, orders in

Nagari as well as Roman script.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan