New 5000 Rupee note
I think these are the new currency notes. I got them via email a few weeks back and their release was announced today. Haven’t seen them in the wild though. I must say, I like the new designs. They don’t have Mahinda and random boats in the air like the hastily photoshopped 1000 Rupee notes of recent yore. The new notes are interesting, they emphasize dance, butterflies, birds and infrastructure, each in different variations.
New 1000 Rupee note
I certainly like this new thousand better than the abomination that is Mahinda’s last redesign, something between an election handbill and the back of a bus. This not has a relevance of beyond a year, what with the traditional dancing, natural scenes and somewhat sturdy bridge. I think the current 1000 Rupee notes are nice, but I rarely find one crisp enough to discern anything in particular.
New 500 Rupee note
The 500 Rupee note is possibly the most versatile note in the currency. Many places or people can’t change a 1,000 or 2,000 and hundreds are too many to carry around. The 500 can be used almost anywhere. This note is very similar to the other notes, different dancer, different scene, different creatures, but same theme.
New 100 Rupee note
This note is interesting in that it has a Tamil dancer.
New 50 Rupee note
This looks a lot like the 500.
New 20 Rupee note
This looks a lot like the 1000.
The other notable note is the 5000, atop. This is notable in that it is awesome, with demon dancers, but also in that it is entirely new. Since the new 2000 is already impossible to use in most places, the 5000 will be doubly and a half so. I suppose it is useful for large cash transactions like rent, salaries or bribery.
Cool notes. Would be cooler if inflation didn’t keep making the denominations higher and higher. As a child I remember something called coins, now a quaint oddity.
Indi, how about linking the phrase “back of a bus” to this post of yours: http://indi.ca/2010/09/ghetto-art-bus-art/.
Dr Kavan Ratnatunge has put up a set of pages describing the new notes: http://notes.lakdiva.org/2010/
This is the sort of indi.ca post I like best.
These notes are ok, and even though I love Kandyan dancers, there seems to be something not quite right with their layout. The best looking notes for me are the Laki Senanayake designed ones with birds and reptiles.
They’ve forgotten the 10 rupee note. Damn inflation. :(
thanks for the links Anuradha, and the comments Shammi
They look like those ‘Vesak Thorana’
The 5000 note looks awesome – the best one of the lot.
agreed. like the dancers. the reverse side lacks a little inspiration though
Errm Indi just so you know that their had been a leak at the CBSL and the images of the notes without the “Specimen” watermark are considered unauthorized and are being traced. Not to alarm you or anything just an FYI.
Thank god for not having that Lesbian with shawl on the money xD – (not a homophobe btw)
Why do they have to change the currency notes?. The new ones seem dull and something isn’t right about them. Anyway, I better start saving the old notes in my cupboard, they could be sold at a higher price sometime later.
This is just fucked up in a monkey rectum guys. Why’s everybody commenting on indi.ca so worried that people will ‘imagine’ them to be homophobes?
It goes like this.
“Thank god for not having that Lesbian with shawl on the money. Hey, I’m not a homophobe though.”
“92% of Colombo ESEs are gay, lesbian, or transsexuals. One of them is the leader of Lanka LGBT Society, as well as the United National Party. Fucked up, ain’t it? Mind you, I’m not a homophobe. I just find it’s great. Aren’t we so difficult. Hih hih heh (not so easy laugh)
“Indi. Are you gay? Hey I’m not a homophobe. I just want to take an interest in your s… Lefroy you suckerboy.”
So let me just blurt it out and make life easy for most of you. Contrary to whatever I’ve said in the past, I AM A HOMOPHOBE. I know, I know. I call myself liberal so I’m not supposed to be a homophobe. But my heart and anus isn’t where my head is. My head is a wonderful creation of Darwinian Natural Selection and few other crappy theories like genetic drift. But evolution itself has turned it’s back on my ass.
I don’t like gay people. Well, not exactly. I like Oscar Wilde and Indi Samarajiva (note that what Oscar and Indi share isn’t homosexuality, but their ability to clearly express what’s in their mind. I just put Indi here because I try to be Martin Amis every morning these days, while I take a shit. Style over substance). But I don’t want them any where near them. My anus is like the Silky Road, forever closed in 1492. I don’t want any gay to get the wrong idea. Period.
There, I said it.
My word, incorrect grammar, words gone missing, single words split into two, singular plural confusion, I’m more Arundati Roy-esque than Martin Amis-esque.
The world without gays, dictators and religion would be like indi.ca without Lefroy. Boooooring!
Oops! I don’t mean indi.ca is boring but that lefroys make it so much more fun. : )
@shammi
indi.ca, and the world in general, would have been much more wonderful if it weren’t for you. How many men have you widowed? Thousands who were blinded by your textual beauty, thinking they had a future with you, only to realise you were happily married to the Great Wall of China with three obese kids?
And yet, what light is light if Shammi be not seen?
What point in comment if Shammi do not read?
See what I mean?
I wonder why they made it all the same height. That, I would imagine make the right one difficult to locate in a wallet.
At least one of the new notes should have a soldier on it – to signify the defeat of Tamil terrorism in the island.
@bonchi babaa
The reason soldiers aren’t in the new notes is because the chances of a kandyan dancer being gay is much less than an SL soldier being gay. This is a ‘Dharma Rajjyaya’, remember?
How about using Fonny then? ; )
Gays always make life fun. Not that all homophobes are secretly gay, of course. Just saying.
BREAKING NEWS.
GAYS ALWAYS MAKE LIFE FUN, says David Blacker.
“Yes. Gays always make life fun” says David Blacker, the blogger known to his fans as the-great-man-with-no-facial-hair-and-too-much-pubic-hair, an enemy of revisionist history and a defender of the Third Reich, also as Tom Lefroy’s golden punching bag. “YEAH BABY YEAH” says Blacker, “gays do make life fun. I know this from my personal experience, at midnight with this totally uncool yet so hot gay homophobe with green underwears and perfect teeth. His name is… wait for it, wait for it, wait…wait…wait…it’s Tom LEFROY. Yeah baby yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.”
UPDATE
Upon hearing the response of totally uncool and yet so hot Tom Lefroy, adventurer, child-molester, music composer, C programmer, novelist, physicist, buddhist, chemist, ex-hippieeee, and the homophobic protagonist of his homosexual fantasies, David Black, blogger known to his fans as the-great-man-with-no-facial-hair-and-too-much-pubic-hair, died of a rare condition known as “AUTOEROTIC ASPHYXICATION”, says Tom Lefroy M.B.B.S. His last words were “I rest my case. Gays always make life fun. Not that all homophobes are closet gays. But you…you…oooooo…ah…gahh…u..hhh”
This message is not related to this topic. Sorry!
However, I had a hard time finding Anuradha Rtnaweera in appropriate places as he has been inactive for about 3 years. So, I googled “Anuradha Rtnaweera 2011″ and found this thread. Hopefully, Anuradha will get this message.
You have to change the line \newfontinstance{\sifont}[Script=Sinhala]{LKLUG} in the style sheet sinhala.sty to \newfontfamily{\sifont}[Script=Sinhala]{LKLUG}.
(Thanks for creating sinhala.sty back in 2008. I have used it to create nice looking sinhala documents. Thanks.
See http://luku23.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/sinhala-in-xeletex/ for an example.)
(BTW, I know Kavan Ratnatunga :)