The use of English shorthand and typewriters expanded towards the end of the 19th century in clerical work in the major cities of the subcontinent. The use of shorthand in Indian languages, however, ...

Drafting a handwritten letter is a foregone skill for most of us today. Letter writing, which once was one of the only means of communication, has become a distant past with the advent of technology.

A Pune-based digital agency has developed a digital font of popular Marathi writer Purushottam Laxman Deshpande’s handwriting. The agency ‘Be Birbal’ said that it has been done so that Pu La - as the ...