How Arabi Malayalam is scripting a comeback in this election season

The graffiti seeking vote for M B Rajesh invited flak on social media for the ‘use of Arabic for minority appeasement’. However, the script used in the graffiti was Arabi Malayalam, a variant form of the Arabic script. The script, used for written and oral communication among Muslims, has its origin that dates back to pre-Islamic period.

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