Guest guest Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Is there some tradition of calligraphy in India? Alexandra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 "alexandra_108" wrote: > Is there some tradition of calligraphy in India? > > Alexandra The tradition of calligraphy has declined greatly in India. When I was in elementary school, one of my teachers was an old-fashioned calligraphy enthusiasts. He taught us how to cut the tip of a nib at an angle and encouraged us to practice penmanship. He used to opposed the use of "fountain-pens". Urban "english-medium" educated young Indians today typically write in English, Indian languages are in decline. These days very little value is attached to learning of Indian languages, let alone learning calligraphy. There are apparently still some practitioners of calligraphy. There are some who have produced works of ornamental calligraphy. I have heard about some Jain monks who have attempted to revive traditional styles. Some Devanagari fonts have been developed that recall calligraphic styles. You can see them in Hindi/Marathi magazines. Newars in Nepal have preserved a calligraphic tradition in Ranjana script. http://malaiya.tripod.com/ranjana/ The siddham calligraphy in Japan/China is based on old Indian scripts/calligraphic traditions. I had collected a sample of images at http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html Unfortunately some of the links are longer valid. Some of them may still be archived at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scr ipts.html Yashwant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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