The use of English shorthand and typewriters expanded towards the end of the 19th century in clerical work in the major cities of the subcontinent. The use of shorthand in Indian languages, however, ...

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1809: Louis Braille is born. He'll devise a tactile alphabet for the blind. 1813: Isaac Pitman is born. He'll devise a shorthand alphabet for quickly writing what people are saying. It's probably more ...

Yupha, a veteran secretary in her late 40s, is at a company meeting taking notes. She scribbles symbols on her notepad because she is writing in shorthand. "Shorthand is faster than normal writing. It ...

As S Parasuraman read rapidly from a tattered text, the class bent over their notebooks and scribbled what seemed like doodles. CHENNAI: As S Parasuraman read rapidly from a tattered text, the class ...