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This week India gonna get its Currency Symbol.

Followings designs are the shortlisted out of a contest held by Ministry of Finance (Govt. of India) in Feb 2009:



Great to know that we gonna get our Currency Symbol.
All above symbols represent R of Devnagri (Hindi) Language means  " र " (Ra)...

Initiative is really appreciable and work done is marvelous.

I just wanna do a critical analysis on it:

• Why to promote "R" which denotes Rupee
  
  
  
   - USD is symbolised as $ which resembles S denoting "States"
   - - i kno it represents Pesos or Silver Unit
  
   - GBP is symbolised as £ which resembles L denoting "London", capital and largest city of UK
   - - i know it represents Lira
  
   - Euro is symbolised as € which resembles E denoting "Europe"
  
  So I should be a better presentation of Indian Rupee (INR) being I for "India"
  
  
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  Why to promote R which resembles currency of other countries too
   - R South African Rand
   - Rp Indonesian rupiah
   - Rs Pakistani Rupee
   - R$ Brazilian real
   - RM Malaysian Ringgit
   - RSD Serbian Dinar
  
  So why not to create a Unique Symbol that is outstanding of all others.
  
  The sign " i "  is not occupied by any country upto now, i dunno if they do after reading this article....LOL....
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  As per conditions of the contest symbol should be:
   - applicable to normal standard keyboard,
   - in the Indian National Language Script or a visual representation and
   - representing the historical & cultural ethos of the country as widely accepted across the country.
  
  

   - i dont think any of above letter in images is available on all keyboards, on the other hand Symbol " i" can be written any on any keyboard with double strike through.
  
   - Moreover, the letter "i" has a dot at top which represents a dot (called Bindi in Hindi) and which is marked on the first letter when we write India in Hindi
  
  
  i.e. इंडिया

  
  

  and a Dot on " i " can represent "Ashoka Chakra" (अशोक चक्र) of Indian Flag...
  

  
  
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   - र represents Core hindi, though it is National Language but 28 core Indian Languages like Bengali, Marathi, Telegu and Tamil etc. are spoken in India other than Hindi, why to do prejudice.So why not to present such a symbol which promotes unity of all languages, giving priority to the country as a whole.
  
  Ok, for example try to read it --------------- 卢比
  were you able to read????
  Nope???? ok then try to write that...
  
  m sure u ll take 5 minute to write...
  
  U kno that is written in Chinese and its meaning is "Rupee"
  The same problem will occur if a person (not knowing hindi) reads or writes it.

Which makes me think of our dignity as following image:





May be few modifications are required to it.

I am proud to forward this speech...... .......... ......... ....
I am sure you will agree with every suggestion he has made........ ..........


* The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad .. *


Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our Achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success Stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a Self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements But our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I Was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the Day After a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid And a granary.
It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The Gory details of illings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the Newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign Things? We want foreign T. Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign Technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that
Self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this
Lecture, When a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal In life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her,
You and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India
Is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Do you
Have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is
Yours.
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke,
The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - YOURS. Give him a
Face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International
Best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in
The stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay
$5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim
Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking
Lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or
A shopping mall irrespective of your status identity... In Singapore you
Don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during
Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered
In Jeddah . YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange
In London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD
Calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph
(88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop,
'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son.
Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell
Anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New India ?

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr.
Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the
streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And
then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the
authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the
officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure
in his bowels?
In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job.
Same in Japan . Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to
the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do
everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the
government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all
over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper
and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms
but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air America to bask in their
glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to
England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out
to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and
brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape
the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is
mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great
deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.... I am echoing J. F.
Kennedy 's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....

'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA
AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA
WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.

Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or
junk mails.

Thank you,

Dr. Abdul Kalaam