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Guwahati 2

praskrishna — 2011-07-21T07:42:55Z

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Gus

praskrishna — 2012-04-15T13:58:41Z

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Guru Gomke is a Stylish Ol Chiki Typeface for India’s Santali Speakers

praskrishna — 2016-12-01T14:56:41Z

The blog post was published by AIGA.org on November 29, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi was consulted.

Back story: Ever met a teenaged girl yearning to be a typeface designer? Yes? Then perhaps you know Pooja Saxena, who recognized her life’s calling when she was still in high school. Saxena went on to study with type historian and designer Fiona Ross at the University of Reading in the UK.

The idea for Guru Gomke came from a chat she had with Panigrahi, whose work with the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Program at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore underscored the lack of tools and resources available for India’s minority languages online. For example, Ol Chiki is the alphabet needed to write the language Santali, used by over 5 million people in India and its neighboring countries. “At the time of our conversation, we couldn’t find a single Unicode-compliant font in the script—forget a typeface family with a bold or an italic. [Noto Sans Ol Chiki, in regular and bold, has since been released]. Subhashish mentioned all these minority scripts in India that people can’t use because fonts and keyboards for them don’t exist,” Saxena says. “I was enthusiastic to help create a free open-source typeface family and input methods in Ol Chiki, and thanks to Subhashish’s work with A2K, he was able to make it happen.”

Why’s it called Guru Gomke? Guru Gomke is a title of respect for Pandit Raghunath Murmu, creator of the Ol Chiki script in the early 20th century. The name translates to “great teacher.” It was recommended to Panigrahi by one of the language experts consulted by the designers, and they found it a wonderful nod to the history of the script.

What are its distinguishing characteristics? Its very existence, frankly. It’s now one of just two Unicode-compliant fonts with both bold and italic character sets.

What should I use it for? Next time you need to set absolutely anything in Ol Chiki.

What other typefaces do you like to pair it with? Matched to Source Sans Pro visually and proportionally, these two fonts are visually harmonic used anywhere Ol Chiki and Latin texts have to work together. In fact, the Latin glyphs included in Guru Gomke are derived from Source Sans Pro.

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Gurshabad

praskrishna — 2018-08-12T07:19:00Z

Gurshabad

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Gujarati Wikipedian

praskrishna — 2012-10-31T07:12:31Z

Gujarati Wikipedian

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Gujarati Wikipedia Participants

praskrishna — 2012-10-31T07:00:57Z

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Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition

praskrishna — 2012-11-03T10:55:01Z

PDF in Gujarati about the Wikipedia article competition.

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Gujarati Wikipedia Article 1

praskrishna — 2012-11-03T09:23:32Z

Gujarati Article Writing 1

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Gujarati typing

praskrishna — 2012-11-03T10:17:17Z

Gujarati Typing

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Gujarati training

praskrishna — 2015-05-10T09:53:22Z

Gujarati Training

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Gujarati Media Coverage

praskrishna — 2012-12-07T10:21:00Z

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Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in India

praskrishna — 2013-08-28T10:19:23Z

The Research Center of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg organized the Summer School 2013 at Hamburg, Germany from July 29 to August 2, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist in the session on "Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in India".

The Summer School Book of Abstracts/Information brochure can be downloaded here

This year’s Summer School offered by the Research Center of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg picked up upon a crucial issue for current media development – a topic relevant to academia, media practice and media policy. In the age of digitisation, the landscape of media and communications is being increasingly influenced by phenomena that can be viewed as reappropriations of previously published media communications. The Summer School pursued central questions about the kinds of reappropriated media communications that were being developed and the relationship between ‘old’ and ‘new’ shaping them. This repurposing was analysed from four different perspectives: repurposing as recombination, as reactualisation, as piracy and as plagiarism.

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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)

praskrishna — 2016-02-05T14:01:32Z

Anubha Sinha attended this meeting organized by the Office of The Controller General, Patents, Designs & Trade Marks in Mumbai on January 12, 2016

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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)

praskrishna — 2016-02-05T13:58:56Z

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GSMA Partners Meeting

praskrishna — 2014-05-05T07:03:40Z

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