Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful or elegant handwriting. The term Calligraphy is derived from its Greek roots: kalli meaning beautiful and graphia referring to writing. Although most often associated with the beautiful writing done by scribes during the Renaissance, it has come to encompass beautiful lettering made by many means. Oriental brush lettering or Roman stone carving are equally a part of what we call Calligraphy today.

Even as the art is declining, true calligraphers will always keep it alive as long as they are willing to carry on the tradition. Despite super fast computers that can produce a number of different fonts, real calligraphy comes from deep within the artist who strives to evoke the true emotion of the script through the words they draw.

M.L Bharath who launched his career as a full-fledged calligraphist after he lost interest in his previous job has obtained his Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering.

"It was the job satisfaction I was looking for and later I realised that my talent could fetch me both the satisfaction as well as money" says, Bharath.

"Scripts" - the school of Calligraphy established by Bharath carries a vision to help people improve their handwriting and explore the old art. He has conducted several workshops on Handwriting improvement and Calligraphy in Mysore, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The workshops usually held for 15 days impart basic skill, continuity skills, perfect letter forms, spacing concepts, different strokes and styles of lettering namely Roman, Italics and Gothic.He enrolls around 20 to 25 students for each class as he feels that only then he can concentrate individually on each student.

Other than children, Bharath has many adults also as his students, who pick up skills very fast, which makes him feel proud.

Out of these several workshops he recalls SOS Children's Village, where he conducted a workshop having around 200 children of the organisation, as the memorable one.

He is the son of Mr M.L.N Swamy, a retired Bank Manager of the State Bank of Mysore who has also attained proficiency in this field. His works have been appreciated by President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and Her Majesty Elizabeth II, Queen of England and has won him medals and prizes from several prestigious institutions. He also possesses more than 150 rare varieties of penholder nibs, ink pens and penholders.

Bharath is a member of Association for the Calligraphic Arts (ACA), USA.

Contact for more details
M.L Bharath
3036, 2nd Main,
Mariyappanapalya,
Bangalore-560 021
Ph- 2342 9587

Email: scripts_calligraphy@usa.net

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