The flame of Sanskrit studies in the State was kept alive in modern times by scholars like Zadoo, Kamal and Parmanand. One hopes the current generation will keep it lit Sanskrit is an all-India ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a favourable atmosphere has emerged across the country for the resurgence of the Sanskrit ...

Written accessibly for a non-specialist audience, Audrey Truschke’s latest monograph, The Language of History, is a timely intervention in an increasingly polarized world in which we find ourselves.

The varna system was a peculiar, and despicable, creation of the world view originating in the Vedic ethos. The purohit, quite like the Egyptian pharaoh, came to be considered the necessary ...

G.N Devy’s book is part of the Essential India Editions’ series (Aleph). It is reminiscent of OUP’s Very Short Introductions series a quarter of a century ago whose subject matters ranged from ...

Vasanta: Stories from Sanskrit Plays. Somewhere in the middle of third century king Shudraka’s Sanskrit and its dialects’ drama Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart) is an angry exchange of words ...

Historian-author Audrey Truschke's new book will analyse a hitherto overlooked group of histories on Indo-Muslim or Indo-Persian political events through a few dozen Sanskrit texts that date from the ...

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has launched a Sanskrit language course, marking the first such initiative in ...

First time after partition, two universities of Pakistan's Punjab have launched short courses in Sanskrit citing shared ...