ABOUT THE SHOW
In the 1990s India Fontwala is an aspiring
typographer and font designer of Indian languages who designs the Anglo Nagari
Keyboard, one of the first software that allows typing of Indian scripts on the
Latin-based keyboard.
In the present time Shilpi, Fontwala’s niece
has returned to India after spending two decades as an immigrant in the US to
write the story of her uncle, Fontwala.
Shilpi discovers what it means for a
"complex" script to survive in a digital world and for a person with
complex histories to try and tell one story.
Inspired by the story of typographer and font designer of Indian scripts, Rajeev Prakash.
Duration:
60 mins
House opens at 6:15PM, Venue has a bar that closes promptly at 6:50PM
BOWERY POETRY CLUB
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