Dear friends,
You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlier.
Here is some background if you are not aware of it.
On the first death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar(my aunt), our family
released AksharYogini (Normal) Font on 1st Nov. 2006. This font is
primarily for Marathi language but can also be used for Hindi (for any
language using Devanagari). It also has English support. Later on, on the
occasion of Gudhipadwa (Chaitra Shuddha 1, 1931; that is 27th March 2009) ,
we released the additional fonts to complete the "AksharYogini font
family". This font family was/is made available on the site
http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com for free usage/distribution/sharing.
Today, on the occasion of Eighth Death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar, we
are now releasing an updated "AksharYogini font". This font is also
available on the same website http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com
This is an updated font and has support for the new (MS Windows) operating
systems where the internal mechanism for font rendering is changed. Also,
it has additional characters for the current Unicode standard and the Rupee
Sign is also included.
Most important is the licensing. The new release is under the Open Font
License. As such, all Linux distributions will be able to freely use it in
their packaging.
Please feel free to use, share, distribute the new font. You can download
it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com .
Give us feedback on my email id or the official id for the font "
aksharyogini at sudhanwa.com " You can also comment on the guestbook on the
website.
Do share this news and also the font.
Wishing you a Very Happy Diwali !!
Thanks and regards
-Sudhanwa
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Dear Wikimedians,
We are glad to invite you to join us for an event in Mumbai on October
7th where Pandita. Neela Bhagwat [1] will donate her comprehensive
textual compilation of Gwalior Gharana [2] bandishes.
Timing: 5.30 to 7 pm
Venue: Shivaji Park Nagarik Sangh, (hall next to Shivaji statue at
Shivaji Park, Dadar)
As some of you may know that Gwalior Gharana is one of the old
traditions of Hindustani gayaki and like other gayaki's the tradition
has been passed on orally in the guru-shishya parampara. Pt. Neela
Bhagwat has over a period of 30 years (of learning and teaching music)
meticulously compiled most of the Gwalior Gharana bandishes with
notations and notes. Upon the request of CIS-A2K, she has agreed to
donate this comprehensive collection which will be scanned and hosted on
Wikisource. We hope that this will be of interest to music aficionados
and those interested in the study of Hindustani Music.
CIS-A2K is thankful to the event hosts, Khayal Trust. The event will
attract a community of Hindustani music lovers and we hope to orient
them to consider improving the quality of content on Hindustani music
and musicians on Wikipedia during the event. We welcome the community
members in Mumbai to join us in this effort. Please help spread the word.
Best,
Vishnu
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neela_Bhagwat
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_gharana (needs wiki love)