15 July 2010, a notable day in Indian History. Indian Rupees has got a new identity.
This symbol was selected through a public competition. Udaykumar an IIT Student has registered his name in Indian History.
This symbol will be included in Unicode letters. At the moment we don’t have a way to type the letter.
"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file sharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
Indian currency doesn’t have a unique symbol or identity. So far Rs or Re have been used to denote the Indian currency.
Last year, Govt of India decided to create symbol for Indian currency which should capture the sense of India’s history and culture. A competition was announced last year to public to provide suggestions.
There are five symbols that are shortlisted now, to choose a suitable symbol to represent Indian currency.
One among the five will take part in the Indian history.
What is your selection?
Indian music maestro A.R.Rahman bagged two Grammy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.
Following are the categories for which Rahman was given two Grammy Awards.
Let us all wish him best of luck to bag more Double Awards. 
One fine day in London, a Sikh was walking down the road and he passes by the Indian embassy, as he was passing by he saw the Indian flag hoisted on the high pole right in front of the embassy.
Now as patriotic Sardars are, he saluted the Indian flag and was about to walk away when a British standing by stopped him and asked him why he saluted Indian flag.
The British told the Sikh, the Indian flag does not represent any colour of Sikhism in the flag; the saffron is of Hindus, Green for Muslims,White for Jains, the Dark blue circle for Buddhists.
As to why he was saluting, the answer was quite simple because it took lots of sacrifices by the Indians including Sikhs to gain the freedom and the right to hoist the flag of Independent India anywhere.
As to what represents the Sikhs, the Sardar asked the British, “Do you see that 20 foot high pole with the help of which the Indian flag is strutting high in the air ? ”
The British said, Yes… So ?
Well Mate, the Sardar replied, that Pole Represents Us !!!
Source : VJ
The above story is given by VJ in the comment section of “History of Indian Flag”. I thought it would be better if I published in a separate post.
Design Indian Currency Symbol
Most of the countries have identification symbols for their currency. $ is for U.S Dollar, £ for GBP, € for Euro etc.,
But Indian currency, Rupee, does not have a unique identification symbol. So for, Rs has been used to denote the Indian currency and there is no official symbol to identify the Indian Currency.
Recently Government of India – Ministry of Finance announced Competition for Design to finalize an official identification symbol for Indian currency.
This would be a great opportunity for all artists and designers to take part in this historical competition.
Are you not an artist? No worries, still you can take part in the historical event.
Economic Times came up with a set of currency designs that are designed by it’s designers. This has been released to public to select the best design out of the set.
All these designs along with the public view will be sent to Ministry of Finance. Visit the following link to select your own symbol from the set.
Select the rupee symbol by Economic Times
Last date for submitting your own designs to Ministry of Finance is 1:00 pm IST – 15 Apr 2009.
The number system what we use today (1,2,3,4,5…) is called Arabic Numbers System. We also have Roman Numbers System (I, II, III, IV, V, …) which is rarely being used.
Have you ever thought WHY One is 1, Two is 2, Three is 3 … and so on?
It is all because of Angles. Yes, it is the number of angles in each letter.
The following image has ancient Arabic numbers. All the angles that are formed in these letters are mentioned by the letter o.
Ancient Number System - Arabic Letters
The number of angles gives meaning to each letters.
Number 1 has one angle
Number 2 has two angles
Number 3 has three angles
….
and so on.
Observe the letter Zero. It has no angles.
Interesting. Isn’t?
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