Saturday, January 17, 2009

The amazing Indian mirror-writing story

At last an amazing story from back home...

Moradabad, January 17: Eleven-year-old child prodigy Roshni is stunning people in Moradabad with her fluent writings in English, Hindi and Sanskrit in the mirror-image format.

Roshni is writing against the norm from right to left reversing each letter so that when seen in a mirror the script appears normal.

Talking about her extraordinary writing skills to reporters here Saturday, Roshni said that once when watching TV, she saw a girl reading a script in its mirror image, which appeared in reverse, and that inspired her.

"Once, I saw a girl on TV reading a script in its mirror image which appeared in reverse easily. So I don't know exactly when I got expertise in it," she said.

Besides writing, she is also capable of reading mirror images of various texts easily.

Her proud father hopes Roshni will find a a place in the records book.

"I want her name to be entered in the Limca Book of World Records, as it is a God-gifted thing. This extraordinary talent of our child makes us feel proud," said Kaku, Roshni's father.

He added that Roshni was equally comfortable writing in English and Hindi, and could also write numbers in the reverse.

While her parents await her to be famous, Roshni is envied by her classmates, who enjoy watching her as she experiments with new forms of reverse-writing.

Many historical personalities, including Leonardo da Vinci, were experts in mirror-writing.

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