This is amazing! Congratulations Santhosh!!! Best, Pavan.
గురు, 15 ఆగ, 2019 6:57 PMకి, manoj k <manojkmohanme03...@gmail.com> ఇలా వ్రాసారు: > Santhosh Thottingal > <https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/thottingal.in> > has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India > <https://www.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-award-declared-1.4042922>. > This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of > Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the > substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi, > Pali and Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and > Classical Malayalam. This is given to young scholars in the age group of > 30 to 45 years > <https://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/advertisment/presidential_awards_en.pdf>. > The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a > one-time cash prize of Rs.1 lakh. > > Santhosh is one of the most active contributors of Swathanthra Malayalam > Computing and a principal engineer in Wikipedia's language computing > department. He has designed and released several algorithms and tools that > serve computing needs in many Indian languages including Malayalam. He > heads the maintenance of a dozen or so of the popular Malayalam fonts. > Santhosh (along Kavya) designed two of these fonts, Chilanka and Manjari > <https://www.mathrubhumi.com/technology/web/manjari-font-new-malayalam-font-laguage-technology-santhosh-thottingal-swathanthra-malayalam-com-malayalam-news-1.1224474>. > He has contributed > <https://internethealthreport.org/2018/building-a-multilingual-internet/> > tools that serve a broad range of language computing needs - input tools, > layout tools, fonts, font rendering, text to speech, translation, > localization are just a few of these areas. He has also contributed and > presented papers at several international conferences. > > Dr. Rajeev R. R from the e-governance and training department of ICFOSS > has also been selected for this award along with Santhosh. > > We hope this award inspires Santhosh and Rajeev to push the boundaries of > Language computing. > > > https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/ > > ------------------ > Manoj Karingamadathil [[User:Manojk]] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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