Photo of Akhilesh Gupta Akhilesh Gupta (23-2-1969)

Our director Akhilesh Gupta is a typographical engineer. He is not a regular typographer or type-designer.

1987  Started learning Computer Fundamentals & BASIC.
1989  Started learning C.
1991  Wrote 'Sugam' (ISCII <-> Proprietary-Code Converter) in C.
1992  Wrote a bitmap PCL font editor in C.
1993  Started developing a small DevaNagari editor in C. Named it 'Emend'.
1994  Kept on developing 'Emend' and renamed it to 'LeKhaNi' (Lekhni).
1995  Designed a DevaNagari-Latin font. Probably this was the first Hindi English font!
1996  Finalised version 1.1 of 'Lekhni'.
1997  Designed more DevaNagari-Latin font(s).
1998  Finalised version 1.2 of 'Lekhni'.
1999  Started marketing and promoting Lekhni!
2001  Finalised version 2.0 of Lekhni
2002  Wrote notes on Saral Nagari etc.
2003  Started converting one of our TrueType font to Unicode encoded OpenType font.
2004  Finished our first Unicode encoded OpenType font.
2005  Developed iNagari - a keyboard layout for Indic Scripts.
2007  Developed xNagari - a transliteration scheme for converting Devanagari Text to Latin Text.

Developing Nagari (aka Devanagari) fonts and software wasn't rewarding for us! May be because we operate from a small town (Gondia) and don't have inclination towards marketing.

Apart from learning computer programming, developing DevaNagari fonts and writing software, he did following.

1990  Graduated in Industrial Engineering.
1991  Started DTP business (SurNir Printek).
1997  Established Aditi Info.
2000  Learned Java.
2004  Floated ISE...

The fonts and software designed by Akhilesh don't have odd (infrequent) conjuncts. He devoted a lot of time developing his preferences about Nagari. Read about 'Saral Nagari'!

He kept on developing LeKhaNi as an intelligent(!) interface for keying in bilingual text of Nagari languages and English for years. But alas, in 2002 we stopped promoting it and started working on Unicode based solutions. Now we promote and sell our Unicode solutions Sugam-98 and Sugam-2K!


Download Hindi Rhymes (MP3): Baal_geet