In a Sign of Times, Your Signature is Losing its Stamp

..........The courier boy doesn’t bother verifying it, nor does the retailer while accepting the debit/credit card receipt. Even the banks seem less enthusiastic — the net cast wider for customers in rural areas can manage with thumb impressions, and the middle class is happy with netbanking. The truth is, in a world increasingly turning around passwords and Personal Identification Numbers (PIN), manual signatures are finding fewer takers..........

.......Indian currency notes also carry what seems to be a contradiction: two signatures from one person, since the signature of the RBI Governor appears in both Roman and Devnagari. This is as per the Official Languages Act, which mandates that since our notes are bilingual, the signatures are too, but it leaves open the question of what the protocol will be if a governor has a signature in neither script. Would the other script be Roman or Devnagari? Or would the governor have to sign in these scripts, but not use his regular one?...............

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