You know what this is?
It's the officially accepted symbol of the INDIAN RUPEE. And let me tell you, you need to be an IIT post-graduate to come up with this symbol. How ironic! The guy who prepared the symbol is an IIT post-graduate.
After some 10,000 selected entries...they sorted out final 5. And from those 5, the cabinet chose this...as the final symbol over which a billion people are destined to fight from now on. A mere combination or the R of the Roman Language and the RA of hindi(or devnagri) with 2 parallels going through it has brought a tinch of twinkle in the eyes of every Indian on the planet. We could soon be having the computer keyboards and the mobile phones too bearing this symbol on their keys.(atleast in the softwares)
Now what surprises me is that they had to take so many entries in and select this as the final one. They could have personally asked me to design one for them and mine wouldn't have been very different because i make the same start to my english and hindi signature...yes...i've got 2 of them!
But never-the-less, no-one would ever ask again if Rs. meant Indian, Pakistani, Sri lankan or the other million countries using rupee as the currency. What this also does is opens the gate for other countries having rupee as their currency to prepare a symbol and submit, and may be spread around this symbolism more...even though I have no-idea as to what the criterias are for doing that.
So this was just an informative small little thing i wanted to share. Just for GK...how many countries have got their currency symbols?