From Maatar to Mother: Seeing Sanskrit in English

“How are your Sanskrit studies going?” asked Indira, a dear friend. Over the years, attending Sanskrit classes, I used to be fascinated as I began sensing similarities between many English words and Sanskrit More...

Anglophonic Hegemony and Indian Languages

In the wake of a statement by Sri. Venkaiah Naidu urging cultivation of Hindi by all Indians, a specter of an anti-Hindi agitation is being raised from some quarters. It is time to understand deeply, some plain More...

Why Smriti Irani needs to introduce Sanskrit on a war footing

For Hindus abroad, depending on circumstances, knowledge of Indian languages is probably lost. In a few places, native languages are perhaps viable, like Hindi in Suriname or Tamil in Singapore. If Hindu families More...