Comments on: Interview of Shri Ratilal Chandaria, creator of Gujaratilexicon.com

By: Pravin Vaghani

Pravin Vaghani — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:33:13 +0000

I have known Shree RAtibhai for many years now, since the beginning of his efforts to create a Gujarati font and dictionary for internet. He has overcome many obstacles, some of them heartbreaking to achieve the cfreation and publication of ‘gujratilexicon’. His devotion to Gujarati culture and language is unfathomable. By his lamentless efforts he has proven that age is no limit for achieving the goals in life. His will work will for ever remain inspirational to the lovers of Gujarati culture. Well done, Ratibhai, I salute you ! – Pravin Vaghani, Hon. editor/publisher of MATRUBHASHA.

By: Kantilal Parmar

Kantilal Parmar — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:06:13 +0000

અભિનંદન શ્રી રતિલાલ ચંદરિયા, આજે નવું નીહાળ્યું, લોક કોશ. પ્રગતિ કરતા રહો.
કાંતિલાલ પરમાર
હીચીન

By: Apurva Ashar

Apurva Ashar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:38:14 +0000

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“Standardization is a must. There are many great individuals and organizations working passionately for language computing and font development activities. However there is not enough sharing, no coordinated and systematic approach, policy / strategy agreement etc. Unless this happens everyone will be reinventing the wheel and achieving piecemeal results.”
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I can not agree more with Ratibhai. The need for standardization is a must and there has to be some consolidated effort rather than piecemeal developments. However, I do not entirely agree that “Unicode is the ultimate savior”. But it surly ‘enforces’ standardization as it is integrated within “Windows” and that itself is a big step.

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“We also want to work on a Universal Font Converter for Gujarati language. People can convert different fonts and arrive at a standard Unicode font.”
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I developed one such software years ago and distributed it freely to many people. However, due to my inability to devote more time to it, it was not fully developed and lies at the bottom of a box labeled “Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi, ki har…” If I can be of any help in any of your projects, I will be happy to chip in whatever I can.

By: Ketan Pathak

Ketan Pathak — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:22:24 +0000

Many Many Thanks to Respected Ratibhai Chandaria for making Gujarati Dictionary available online…I am using this dictionary since last few months and find it very useful and always spread a word about it…It is found very useful to students too who always lack word power and translation from English to Gujarati…No one would have done this to help Gujaratis this before in such a different way…Hats off to Ratibhai…

By: Devang Vibhakar

Devang Vibhakar — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:58:24 +0000

@Sureshbhai,

Thank you for sharing the email with us. I will try my best to provide fuel to Ratibhai’s mission by spreading a word about GujaratiLexicon.

By: નટવર મહેતા

નટવર મહેતા — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:10:54 +0000

માનનિય રતિભાઈ
આપની સેવા અને ભાષાપ્રેમ બિરદાવવા માટે શબ્દો નથી. આપની સેવાનો અમે બ્લોગ જગતમાં લાભ લઈ રહ્યા છે.
ધન્યવાદ આપને અને આપની અમુલ્ય સેવાને..

By: Suresh Jani

Suresh Jani — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:17:46 +0000

An email response from Respected Ratikaka -
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Dear Devangbhai

Thanks for publishing this interview ‘on line’ in you web “Speakbindas.com”.

All I have done is to answer, with the help of Ashokbhai, your questions so ably drawn up by you and your team. Thanks to Sureshbhai for being a part therein. I am sure, with Sureshbhai’s help via the hundreds of Gujarati Bloggers, it will be read by many Gujarati language lovers internationally, and my mission, will thus, get the needed boosted.

I have only steered a MISSION that should be taken up by the Gujarati public at large and be a part therein and in the excellent work started by you.

Thanks again,

With kind regards
RATIBHAI

By: sapana

sapana — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:47:17 +0000

I have limited Shbdbhandol.I always use your site.Thank you so much.
sapana

By: Qasim Abbas

Qasim Abbas — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:07:48 +0000

GARVI GUJARAT NA GARVA PUTR SHRIMAN RATILAL CHANDARIA NI GUJARATI BHASHA NI SEVA KADAPI NAHIN BHULAY. GUJARATI LEXICON NI WEB SITE KHARI REETE GUJARATI NO ENCYCLOPEADIA BANI GAYEL CHHE.

RATILALBHAI, AAPNI GUJARATI BHASHA NI SEVA NE KOTI KOTI PRANAAM.

QASIM ABBAS
CANADA.

By: Capt. Narendra

Capt. Narendra — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:10:45 +0000

I had met Ratibhai only once in mid-80s when he told me of his work in creating Gujarati fonts. I was just ‘Narendra’ – a community development officer involved with Gujarati Talking Newspaper “Kiran” in London then. It never occurred to me – or any one for that matter that what he had commenced was not just that: He visualized a mini-Everest and ascended the heights. Gujarati Lexicon was like the base camp North Col and the ultimate became the eBhagvatgomandal. Well done, Ratibhai. The universal Gujarati fonts will become the pennant you will plant on the highest point of our literary world.