Personal blog of Harshvardhan Joshi

Finally, the online collection of Gujarati poems and song lyrics is up. Arnav bought a server yesterday, which may be used when the collection becomes too large for me to host.

Since summer I've been recollecting Gujarati poems I studied in school, even though at that time I used to just skip the verses and read only stories from the textbooks. And the very few poems that I liked, my father had forbidden me to sing :)
I can't claim to having been a big fan of Gujarati songs either, though there were some (very few) songs that were among my alltime favorites. Nevertheless, when I tried to find Gujarati poems / lyrics I could find only a few after hours of searching.

So, that takes care of the motivation part of it. Now, problems (being) faced:
I was introduced to ITRANS last year, when I had decided to make a collection of lyrics of songs by K L Saigal (that project, btw, is shelved since months and that is the reason for this public announcement). However, those were Hindi film songs and the online interface for compiling ITRANS was perfect for that. But the output for Gujarati is way below satisfactory, as the interface doesn't accept LaTex commands. So I tried to to compile it in LaTex myself, but there are some font and .ifm file problems that I've not been able to fix yet, and the website was getting delayed. So I've gone ahead and put up the website, and hopefully when I'm in India in December I'll be able to contribute more poems.

Meanwhile, enjoy !!!