Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Great Regulars: While we in India today consider Sanskrit

a dead language, the Westerners consider it as a fascinating language, a language in which the genius of human civilization was perfected to its highest level through the glory of Sanskrit, one of the most perfect and wonderfully sufficient literary instruments--majestic, sweet, flexible, vibrant and subtle--developed by the human mind.

The only question that I would like to ask is whether the Cambridge University would have dared to abolish the Chairs in Arabic or Persian?

from V Sundaram: News Today: Is England becoming 'Little England'?

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