My Rupee Symbol Entry in the design contest

As some of you may know our Finance Ministry had announced a contest for designing a symbol for Rupee. This is to replace the current way of writing 'Rs' by symbols like dollar, pound, euro, etc. currencies have.

Since long, I also had wished that our government changes the symbol and was enthused with this announcement. Hence decided to participate and submitted following symbol. Though I had high hopes, it did not get selected for the final five. Felt a bit sad, am human too. Anyway, I wish all the best the finalists.

Here is the Symbol:

And here is the description as per the contest guidelines:

Motivation	Due to my work profile, I have to make extensive use of financial and mathematical software programs spreadsheets (MS-Excel and others). I always wished there was a symbol for Indian Rupee, just like US$ or Euro - €, etc., but had to settle with the not-so-intuitive ‘INR’ or just avoid selecting currency symbol all-together.
Trigger	The Contest announced by Finance Ministry was the perfect trigger and thought about submitting at-least one design
Design Thoughts	Following were the guidelines I set to myself before starting the design, the symbol: Should adhere to the Contest Guidelines Should not be complex Should be easy to draw in daily use Should avoid use of ‘Dash’ or ‘Strike-Out’ lines which can imply a cutting or a slashing action and I personally felt it should not be used on our currency!
Explanation of the Submitted Symbol:
Indian History and Culture	The Outer Circle signifies a two fold meaning: It implies the World, in which our Rupee has to make a mark It also implies 0 (Zero or Shunya), one of the most important invention that India has given to the world along with the decimal system; without which the financial, mathematical and all other scientific computations would have been highly difficult to do and incomprehensible to most.
Visual Representation in Indian or English Script	The Inner Curve uses both, Devnagari as well as Roman (English) Script for visual depiction of the Rupee word, i.e.: Part of English Alphabet ‘R’ – which is the start of our currency’s name (Rupee), and, ‘Devnagari’ letter for ‘ra’ ‘र’– again part of and start of the name ‘rupaya’
Advantages of this symbol	Some advantages of this symbol are: Very Simple design Can be easily accommodated in to computer systems Can be easily drawn by people in daily use Can be drawn in one single stroke, i.e. without lifting the Pen/Pencil. Other currency symbols ($, €, £, ¥, etc.) need the pen to be lifted two or more times

I wish all the finalist the very best.

On occasion of Shivjayanti - Feb 19

How many of you know there are temples of Shivaji Maharaj? Frankly, I didn't know. In-fact there are two (in the whole world!). I got a chance to visit both of them in a short span of time and thought to share this on the occassion of Shivjayanti.

One of them is at Panhala Fort (Near Kolhapur) and is privately owned and is open just a day or so in a week.

While the second is on Sindhudurg Fort on Konkan coast. There is a sword used by Shivaji and also some jiretopes (crown?)

Though the actual idol is now covered with a metal mask, this is how it looks like. Shivaji Raje stayed at Sindhudurg, in disguise as a local, to oversee the construction of the fort building the navy.

The fort also has Shivaji's hand and foot imprints, the experience and feeling of seeing them from close is difficult to explain.

While celeberating his Birthday I wish and hope that people read and understand the great vision he had. Just check his instructions for the wood to be used for building armada (fleet, did the word 'aarmaar' get derived from armada?) - it applies even more today.

On Baner Road

The Procession

While returning home I got stuck in a big jam. The road was blocked by a long procession, couldn't what the occasion was. But got a chance to add two more animals to users of our Pune roads :)

Red Carpet for Cows in Pune

Well, it took me almost ten months to utter the second set of words.

While driving to office, I came across a scene when I wished my camera was with me. For a change, the camera was in the car.

Let the pictures describe the scene.



Location: Near Bhusari Colony, On Paud Road, Pune.
Time: 1:34pm
Day: Monday, Oct 9th

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Starting to babble.