Indian Subcultures and Scripts

One of the most amazing fact on India is its enormous amount of different cultures. That finds its expression in one Indian political exclamation: “Unity in Diversity!” So it happens that almost each state has a different people, different language (or more than one) and different scripts. To show you this, here are some pictures of cool looking, often political statements or advertisements to be found anywhere in an Indian city. In the first one you can see a letter that I like very much as in my opinion it looks almost like the Greek letter “φ” upside down.
In general, walls in streets are used everywhere for political messages, so, flags are a common symbol besides writings. Those, at least, can offer a more communication also to visitors who at sight of Tamil script only see their aesthetic point of view.

















On my way through Tamil Nadu to Thrivandrum I could spot something that made me very happy. In all the efforts of creating various scripts for each Indian sub-culture Tamils did put in some extra work and enabled that my nickname also exists in the local script, readable as much as flags for internationals.
Thank you for this! :-)