Removal of bottleneck of different lipi from our languages was something I wished for long. That would instantly make us understand many languages partially, make it easy to learn remaining part if we are trying to learn. and most importantly, with opening up of windows to our other languages, our default vocabulary can become richer with more original, more meaningful words and we may be able to arrest our fall on slippery slop of losing languages to shallow vocabulary of entertainment media taught/English words and in turn losing communication ability and in turn pravrutti to truly express ourselves well and in turn our core sanskar of thinking.
but had no idea how (or if) that can be done. some three weeks back, heard about an attempt of common script (called bharati) - I was overjoyed (even while knowing how hard it might be, if not impossible to go that way, as it would require not only giving up all 'our' scripts but also that it would require putting in effort to learn new script.) I was overjoyed that people recognise this barrier and working towards eliminating it.
I immediately started learning it but process of learning didn't stay on course for long, because the way it was implemented caused me ask myself, why then we cant simply read all languages as they stand in respective scripts in our own scripts? it obviously looked easily doable, then why we don't have it? its immense utility on one hand and obvious doability on the other, combined with fact that we don't do it in reality, baffled me. I could not think of any explanation but that I am missing something completely. but I could not find that missing piece. so, thought of trying to find it 'practical' way. I may either come to know that its not doable or that its not useful.
problem now was, I could see that it was doable (because I had already seen it done for bharati), but had no idea how and that even if I find out 'how', whether it would be possible for me to do it for myself (I am not exceptionally brilliant, you know. ok, you can drop exceptionally easily). it took me two three days of clueless googleing to start getting clues of what to google. even after I fairly started, I did manage to get completely stuck with trivial problems, managed to waste time with silly mistakes but finally, I had a working draft of bahushruta devanagari. while it still had some aesthetics issues as well as there is undone work, it started meeting my own requirement. so much so that my twitter usage on mobile started becoming uncomfortable - bahushruta was there only on comp and now I did not like to see text I couldn't read (even thought I knew some of those tweets were not what I was actually very much interested in but were recently added only because I wanted other language stuff to land on my feed).
So, my 'practical' was partially over, it proved both doable and useful. for rest of the answer, I think time will answer that.
for now, I am taking a pause instead of trying to spend time to make bahushruta devanagari complete and perfect plus extend bahushruta to other scripts beyond devanagari (and on other ideas that are brewing) and go back to something else that I am trying to do for long time and what bahushruta interrupted at what seemed crucial point.