Thiruvananthapuram: Sanskrit may be a 'dead' language for many. At a time when scholars and linguists are seeking its revival, an award-winning filmmaker has come out with a film book in the classical ...

Indian academics have launched a protest against a higher education textbook that states modern sciences such as aeronautics originated from ancient Hindu scriptures. An online petition was submitted ...

It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded languages. It developed a most comprehensive linguistic system very early in history so that it could easily be ...

Sanskrit is regarded as the Latin of South Asia and is one of the very few languages that use minimum words and syllables to convey crystal clear messages without any ambiguity, says Dutch scholar Jan ...

In 1846, a ship crashed into the sandbanks of River Hughli just as it was approaching the Calcutta harbour. On board the ship was a 21-year-old New Yorker in search of his runaway brother. The young ...

There are 100 verses in Saundarya Lahari, although some versions have up to 103 verses. The first part of forty-one verses called ‘Ananda Lahari’ (Wave of Bliss) describes Devi’s power, her ...

Teaching Sanskrit through computational tools is an effective way due to which a language as difficult as Sanskrit would become relatively easy and more students would be able to learn it.

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court has directed the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha to take decision for allowing writing the Sanskrit paper in Devanagiri script instead of Odia script and ...