Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...

COIMBATORE: Learning a new language is not everybody’s cup of tea, let alone an old script such as the Tamil-Brahmi. But, for eight-year-old SJ Moshika, reading and writing the ancient form of Tamil ...

V. Lavanya, a third-year BA Tamil student from Arignar Anna Government Arts College in Musiri, has transliterated 400 poems of the post-Sangam era literary text Naaladiyar into Brahmi script, with ...

Pune-based artist, Aditi Deo, is researching the ancient Indian Brahmi script to bring it into mainstream art and lettering, and fashion a children’s book on how shapes turn into sounds Pune-based ...

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the script ...

V. Vedachalam's workshop, ‘How to read and write Tamil-Brahmi and Vattelluttu scripts’, is a centrepiece of The Hindu Lit for ...

A Lost History: A consideration of historical writing in a quest to find the origins of the 500 BCE Brahmi script’ is an engrossing account that aims to prove that the Brahmi script in fact originated ...

We often forget that a script is different from a speech. Script is written language while speech is spoken language We often forget that a script is different from a speech. Script is written ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...