Announcing the award winner… well, winnerS… read on to the end of the page!

JaiHind folks. Wow! What a 🤔wonderful🤭 competition yesterday’s logo demystification challenge turned out to be! 
 

You guys seemed to go on a rampage… not only demystifying, but construing, demonstrating, elucidating, explaining, expounding, illuminating, illustrating, simplifying, complicating, spelling, unriddling, deciphering, decoding, analysing, disentangling, unscrambling, resolving, commentating, annotating & just what not!!! 

So, to set things in perspective, here’s the creator’s own thought 💭 process: Took क from project name, showing 0️⃣ by the outer ⭕️circle, 1️⃣ by the vertical line “|” of क & ♾️ through the loop of क. Interestingly, 0 becomes ♾️ just by twisting it; while 0 (& in fact, any 2-D planar object) becomes 1 when rotated by 90 deg., about any line in its own plane. These are 3 extreme points, yet all conceived from just one!

And, as the 1️⃣one-man jury, the creator was impressed with many of your overwhelming responses. He in fact told me “People could like & interpret the logo in so much detail. The best one is 'dh' from where I originally started a month🗓 ago… a historic day. Later after reading📖 your initial posts, I saw the words like everythingness, nothingness, & their correlations with Vishnu & Shiva, on the one hand, and ♾️ & 0 on the other. And, finally after your confirmation of the project name, I was in favour to have the first letter of the project name in the logo. Sir, your name "Dinesh" means the ☀️Sun🌞, that gives light (knowledge) to all of us. Your writings on importance of & such an in-depth study of all the days gives me another meaning to your name, Din (Day)+Ish (Knowing), i.e. one who knows about days! Like me, most of the members in the group are fortunate🍀 to receive such incisive knowledge💡 on various aspects of Sanatana Dharma & their deep scientific roots.”

So, the extremely-simple yet profoundly-meaningful design of the logo was that of a Thamizh or Devnāgri ‘ka’ <க / क> inside the circle⭕️. BTW, ‘ka’ is perhaps a rare letter which has almost the same script in Thamizh & Devnagri, unifying south & north Bharat🇮🇳! So, it’s like the infinity ♾️ symbol (representing everythingness @ Vishnu) joining to zero 0️⃣ (representing nothingness @ Shiva), via a reverberating unity 1️⃣. Also note 📝 that the bottom of the circle⭕️ is getting subtly flattened, intentionally to stabilise the base, as stillness of our robotic🤖 toolset🧰 of body, mind & intellect is the most important prerequisite for the glorious inner 🚀yatra❗️
 

Now for a small cross-sectional sample of our readers’ interpretations, prior to declaring the winner of the first ever katham.in 👚T-shirt👕, I shortlisted 27 from amongst a couple of hundred responses. The linked pdf file contains the interpretations of these shortlisted readers, merely in chronological order of their responses. They are 

The creator then took over this shortlist to mark each of them systematically on various weighted parameters & came up with a consolidated score for each. 

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And the winner is… 

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well, the one-person jury of the creator couldn’t help but choose the top three, and they’re…

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1. Sri Shashānk Agrawāl in Rewā, Madhya Pradesh;

2. Smt. Āshā Rāghavan in Mysūru, Karnātaka; & 

3. Dr. Prapanch Nair in Erlangen, Germany 🇩🇪 

Hearty congratulations to the winners. Kindly let us know your 👚T-shirt👕 sizes & preferred 💌addresses📮 so that we could get your 🎁 prizes 🚢delivered⛴ ASAP.