KATHMANDU: Purna Prasad Mishra 'Swami Keshabananda Giri' has published the world’s largest Sanskrit-Nepali e-dictionary in a form of android application. The dictionary contains 400,000 words in ...

Talking about the decision to make a film in the ancient language, Chinmay Sudhir Shende, director of Balbhushanani, says Sanskrit was once the most widely spoken language in India but now it is being ...

The downfall of Sanskrit - one of India's oldest languages - has many reasons to blame. The grammar translation method, which is scarcely in use, is still being employed for Sanskrit teaching. The ...

What does it take to concise an ancient language into a modern dictionary? Wknd sits down with Shashi Bala, who is heading a unique effort. Shashi Bala, 65, has been steeped in Sanskrit for decades, ...

NEW DELHI: In a tiny flat in a rundown alley in New Delhi, Rakesh Kumar Misra is working against the odds to bring India's ancient Sanskrit language to the country's millions. The 4,000-year-old ...

Does India really have >more Sanskrit-speakers than English-speakers? No, absolutely not. Anecdotally, we’d all agree that the last ten years are likely to have seen a huge jump in the number of ...

Kishore M Paknikar is a former director of Agharkar Research Institute (DST, Govt of India), Pune. And a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Sanskrit, the ancient ...

Sanskrit felt like a return to her roots, sparking a further desire to learn more of the beautiful, complex words she recalled from childhood, and her yoga studies. There is an incredible number of ...