India's new government focus on Sanskrit has sparked a fresh debate over the role language plays in the lives of the country's religious and linguistic minorities. Inside a brightly lit classroom at ...

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Sanskrit, a language of beauty and ancient, divine energies, is now having a resurgence. Once forgotten by people in a wish to seem more educated, intellectual, and modern, Sanskrit is coming back to ...

Sanskrit Diwas is observed on Purnima of Shrawana month of the Hindu calendar every year since 1969 to promote the ancient language and the Indian shastra traditions. There was a Congress government ...

The Hindu literati claimed the purity of the language in the ancient age and its deterioration during the Muslim period. Gujarati is a family of languages. Some of these are written in Arabic script ...

Sanskrit names have a special charm; they feel traditional, meaningful, and elegant, yet many of them sound fresh enough for ...

Addressing an event organised here to inaugurate newly constructed central office of the Sanskrit Bharati, Bhagwat said the ...

Today, 150 of the 400 students in the local Sri Sharada Vilasa school study Sanskrit as their first language A village in the southern state of Karnataka where most residents speak Sanskrit is in ...

While acknowledging the language’s historical and cultural significance, the author questioned its mandatory status in many schools. “Hours and hours are wasted on Sanskrit when the teachers ...