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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Calligraphy and musical notation:
The cadences of music and the arabesques of line have a similarity which lovers of music and Calligrphy can immediately connect. 'The dance of the pen', as Alfred Fairbank called it, makes for an imaginative language of musical notation. Calligraphy and visual poetry:
We see this worldwide phenomenon in may and continuing forms: the medieval Chitrakavya and Akshara bandhas of India where verses were contained within graphic shapes; the labyrinth of grid-poem which flourished in the Renaissance and the Baroque in the West; the hui-wen genre Iwithin Chinese literature; and the many modern expamples of concrete poetry in the West as well as in India, where multiplicity of scripts offers a further exciting dimension.
Calligraphy and computers:
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Computer technology bids fair to revitalise printing for India's complex, non-linear scripts whose composite characters and conjuncts vary in size and form. Specially designed software will now be able to produce a variety of Calligraphic styles as tupefont designs in India scripts.
