CommentsLet me put in a few more words about S2 (swaram no.2); that would apply to S4, S6, S10 and S13, in exactly the same way. Imagine a boy, Tom, now about three feet tall; in course of time, he grows and attains the height of four feet,.. five feet etc.. During all this growth [...]

ATSHARAMAALA
General Knowledge
Speech is the medium of communication, using human voice plus ‘oral sounds’ as the base substance. The base substance is available as simple discrete elements- the speech sounds- called phonemes(swanams in Malayalam)
Humans did not develop, to start with, a science of speech sounds; they simply started speaking. They could isolate and designate these [...]