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 ...

Here presented is a translation of the little-known Sanskrit verse epic Kathakautukam, written by the poet-scholar Srivara in 15th-century Kashmir. In modern times, its text was located there during ...

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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 ...

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 ...