{"id":33143,"date":"2018-10-30T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33143"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:35:12","slug":"manuscript-magazines-a-hit-among-statisticians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/manuscript-magazines-a-hit-among-statisticians\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Manuscript magazines\u2019 a hit among statisticians:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Thiruvananthapuram\/manuscript-magazines-a-hit-among-statisticians\/article21864626.ece\"><strong>\u2018Manuscript magazines\u2019 a hit among statisticians<\/strong><\/a><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government staff rediscovering their creative side through Malayalam calligraphy<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employees of the Economics and Statistics (E&amp;S) Department in Kerala have launched manuscript magazines (<em>Kaiyezhuthu Masika<\/em>), with the aim of promoting Malayalam and giving a creative break to the staff from the drab world of statistics, surveys and computations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lost art<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manuscript magazines with elegant calligraphy were once a popular and low-cost means of communication and channelling creativity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the format started losing steam?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The format started losing popularity with the advance in printing technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revival via Niravu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But it is seeing a revival after a handful of employees at the Economics and Statistics Department in Ernakulam district decided to launch their first manuscript magazine, titled\u00a0<em>Niravu<\/em>. Soon, their colleagues in Kottayamand Wayanad came up with their own magazines\u00a0<em>Kaiyoppu<\/em>\u00a0(Signature) and\u00a0<em>Kathir<\/em>\u00a0(Paddy Ears) respectively<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspiration for others<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The popularity of these initiatives is now inspiring employees in other districts and departments to bring out their own magazines. The 90-page\u00a0<em>Niravu<\/em>\u00a0is into its second issue, three months after the first came out<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not an easy task<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publishing a manuscript magazine is not easy. Contributions of the employees are rewritten by those with good handwriting skills. Pencil drawings and colour sketches are included in the magazine<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital format<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite their fascination for the written format, the editors are not indifferent to technology. They are using the digital platform to popularise the magazine by circulating it in PDF format<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Manuscript magazines\u2019 a hit among statisticians:\u00a0 Context Government staff rediscovering their creative side through Malayalam calligraphy What has happened? Employees of the Economics and Statistics (E&amp;S) Department in Kerala have launched manuscript magazines (Kaiyezhuthu Masika), with the aim of promoting Malayalam and giving a creative break to the staff from the drab world of statistics,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/manuscript-magazines-a-hit-among-statisticians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Manuscript magazines\u2019 a hit among statisticians:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704686379},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}