and it was after getting inspired by him that i started doing malayalam calligraphy he saysbhattathiri once saw a gulfbased music band using his calligraphy as their logo which he had originally designed for a musical event of musician ramesh narayanan out of curiosity he asked how they got it they replied that it was from the internet of course using his works without permission or credit was not a concern for bhattathiri when asked about recognition and money he says it is up to the people who use his work to decide i already got my reward from the satisfaction of doing it he sayswhile malayalam is experiencing a dearth of unicode fonts bhattathiri and free software developer santhosh thottingal who is the designer of malayalam unicode fonts chilanka and manjari have been planning to develop a new unicode font for a while with the support of bhattathiri we could create a unique malayalam font i am ready to provide all technical support for developing a new font santosh says among the present calligraphy artists bhattathiri is the greatest he can be considered a continuation of the great lineage of vasu pradeep c n karunakaran and bharathan