Awesome! Congrats, Santhosh! On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 3:20 PM balaji <balajijagad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats Santosh and Rajeev. > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:44 AM Arun Ramarathnam <arunra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Kudos to Santosh and Dr. Rajeev for this amazing honour!!! >> >> Regards >> Arun >> >> On Thu, 15 Aug, 2019, 22:27 manoj k, <manojkmohanme03...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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