"I don't have any reaction"

Guwahati, March 14 -- IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who had designed the Indian rupee symbol refused to be drawn into the controversy over language and said it is a mere coincidence that his father was a DMK MLA. "I don't have any reaction. It's the government which suddenly felt that there was a need for a change and they wanted to implement their own script. This is up to the state government. So, I don't have anything to say about that. It's entirely up to the government," said Kumar.

Kumar's father N Dharmalingam was an MLA from the Rishivandiyam constituency in 1971 from the DMK party, which is in power in Tamil Nadu presently. "My father was an MLA even before I was born. Now, he is old and living in our village, leading his ...