We live in an era of breath-taking change in the way that we read, write and record things. Digital repositories replace paper records. Everywhere, the keyboard, mouse and trackpad seem to be ...

This 17th century version of the Balbodh style of Devanagri was once the language of Goa’s official texts, and is presently being revived . Within the walls of the state archives department is a ...

Thirteenth-century polymath-scholar Hemadpant is said to have given birth to the Modi script. Medieval scribes believed that he received the lipi as a gift from the king of Lanka, Vibhishana, for ...