Sunday, February 06, 2011

CENSUS 2011

The population enumeration Census 2011 is going to start on 9th February 2011.
To day the enumerator called on me and requested to keep ready the date of birth of all the residents of my home as she will be visiting again on 9th to record the details of Census 2011. It is learnt from that enumerator that there is no question regarding Caste in the enumeration which is starting from 9th February.

I appeal to all Sourashtrians to record their mother tongue as SOURASHTRA.
Because people were not alert, the population of Sourashtras was much understated/
At least in this census it should be corrected, so that we can claim the rights of Linguistic Minorities.

Friday, February 04, 2011

Marriage Invitation in Sourashtra Script.


Please view the attached document - a marriage invitation printed in Sourashtra Script.
Er. P.S.Dhanabalan, B.E., FIE, CE(Ind) is an ardent supporter of Sourashtra script.
He has printed the marriage invitation of his daughter in Sourashtra script, besides in Tamil and English language. The marriage date is on Monday, 14th February, 2011. The venue is Agarwal Bhavan1 BB Road, Balarangapuram, Madurai-625009.
Muhurtham between 6 am & 7.15 am. Sow. P.D.Aarti marries Chi. P.S.D.Achyut Babu.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Grantha Script.

In some quarters, it is suggested that Grantha script, a modified form of Tamil script, used to write Sanskrit texts etc. instead of using Devanagari script,
can be used to write Sourashtra language.

Sourashtra language has got a beautiful, scientific, modern, simple and uniform script.
So there is no need to use Grantha script for Sourashtra Language.
Already, the Devanagari script supporters could not do anything for the development of Sourashtra language by using Devanagari Script.
Recently they are trying with Parivarthit Devanagari script !
Even in this script, two more symbols to represent half yakaram and nasal marker are not provided.
It is a pity the supporters of Devanagari Script has not studied the books written by Sri T.M.Rama Rai. Had they studied the books written by T.M.Rama Rai in Sourastra script, they might have realised the need to provide two additional symbols required to write half yakaram and nasal marker which are peculiar to Sourashtra language.

Sourashtra language has special sounds which are not available in other Indian language. Hence, it is not possible to adopt Grantha script for Sourashtra Language.