South Asian Roman Alphabet

Friends! Welcome again to this new post. Well, this post is, as you know, will teach you about the current policy of orthography which Indian Government tries to spread. (I) See, Devanagari is the preferred script by Government of India. But actually, its usage is a recent phenomenon. Yes, indeed it is a very new script and I am not joking. It’s a script which was introduced at the time of British rule by the propagators of Devanagari. There was Nagari Prachaarini Sabhaa (organization supporting Devanagari alphabet). Suddenly these organizations came up with and catered to an ongoing demand of Sanskritization. There were debates taking place on this topic. Sir Syed Ali Khan, an educationist and a reformist, was against the idea of Sanskritization and Devanagari, and only favored the traditional Urdu and its development and propagation. Let me tell you that there are tons of controversies which led to the divide of Urdu and Hindi. Thanks to Jawaharlal Nehru, he did not prefer ...

Hello Friends, So I was telling about the circumstances in which the PIOA emerged. I was small when I tried to compare different alphabets. Those days alphabets used to be my favorite thing to know about. I was too much addicted to this website called Omniglot (it's head, Simon Ager, is a nice person and I am thankful to him). I still know how to read numerous scripts. I am a proud Indian, proud because of my ancestral roots and the glorious heritage that I inherited. That's a long story. I eventually learnt reading Bengali (known by its endonym Bangla). I learnt Hindi because that's what I spoke mostly with outsiders in Mumbai. Anyways, learning Bangla and Hindi went hand in hand because they are similar in lexicon. The already too much Sanskritized language, my mother tongue Bangla helped in grasping the Hindi lessons (because the lessons taught in those classes were using a slightly Sanskritized version of Hindustani). Regularly watching news channels also helped in gain...

Dear Friends, How are you? I was always waiting for this day when people will hear this concept of PIOA. Well, this is something important that I wanted to tell people for a long time. The world is progressing, and so is our country and the subcontinent. Our brothers here and beyond the borders are doing great. The nations are modernizing and things are getting better day by day. People are learning new things, doing new things, adopting new things. Qualities of successful civilizations are getting revised day by day. Now the matter is that we belong to just the second generation of the arrival of modern computers in India. And many of us started using computers and mobiles just after we were born. Many of us utilized computers in many ways. I don’t want to go the details of what happened in these years, just to mention I was born at the beginning of the 21 st century. Now because of the extensive reach of the Internet in every home in our dear country India (and same in other...