Congratulations to Santhosh. This kind of recognitions do motivate more people to
contribute.
Regards,
Pavanaja
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi
Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019
Wonderful... Congratulations to Santhosh..
On Thu, 15 Aug, 2019, 10:27 PM manoj k, <manojkmohanme03107(a)gmail.com
<mailto:manojkmohanme03107@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-ba…
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