Lucknow: While the Western world navigates a somewhat arbitrary alphabet, the scripts of Bharat—all born from the ancient Brahmi—represent a sophisticated masterpiece of human engineering. Far from being a random collection of symbols, these scripts are built upon a precise phonetic map of the human articulation. If you recite the Indian alphabet, you aren’t just naming letters; you are performing a biological sequence. The consonants are organized into a system called Vargas, which tracks the journey of breath from the deep recesses of the throat (Gutturals like Ka, Kha) to…
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