I was going through the archives and i came across the message posted as follows:

>We poeple at NCST are developing one OpenType font for Devanagari. It
>is a Unicode font. The font has to be tested thoroughly and then we'll
>put it in public domain. It may take a week or two.

>We have modified FreeType font rendering library in X server so that
>it now supports OpenType font. We have also built Indic Script Shping
>Engine in the X server. It now works according to Unicode standard