Recently read an article on how a University in America has an over 100 year old programme on Sanskrit studies and how few of its professors are working on translating old Sanskrit writings. It is really sad that we in India are not giving much importance to Sanskrit that it deserves. Like yoga, one feels it will be foreigners who will be making use of this better than us.
One only hopes that other ancient Indian languages like Tamil, which though not in the immediate risk of extinction, do not get the same fate after a few centuries, given the globalized world and free movement of people across the globe. It is incumbent upon us to ensure that the legacy is passed on to our future generations irrespective of which part of the world we live in.
The article can be read at http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/01arthur.htm
One only hopes that other ancient Indian languages like Tamil, which though not in the immediate risk of extinction, do not get the same fate after a few centuries, given the globalized world and free movement of people across the globe. It is incumbent upon us to ensure that the legacy is passed on to our future generations irrespective of which part of the world we live in.
The article can be read at http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/01arthur.htm
1 comment:
Very true man....incidently I too ran through an article on Hinduism and ours self depricating manners toward our own culture.NDA govt wanted to make sanskrit learning apart of cumpulsory syllabus.But our so called leftist/secualarist moral self denigrating hindus opposed the move and it was dropped from agenda on the pretext of "saffronization" of culture and education!....now sanskrit the very root of Indias culture in its own land is dubbed as anti secular!!God bles us..we only know to lick and ape west,forgetting our own great heritage .
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