India needs to promote a subject on ancient languages. And within that should promote Sanskrit and Tamil.
India is a language rich and language diverse nation. There is a national language(Hindi), international language(English) and of course local language. We should also need to have a connection to ancient language as computer is bringing out a huge revolution about the science of languages.
Re: Need to..
by mandook raj on Jan 24, 2015 07:52 AM
Hindi is NOT the national language of India. It is the Rajbhasha, meaning that it is the official language of the Centre only. Not even of all the States. Hindi is not rich in heritage or literature, its history is not beyond 300 years, in fact it is the corruption of Sanskrit.
to be practical if there are no community or no home where Sanskrit is going to be spoken then the language is dead no matter how much you try to bring it to main stream, the reality is if it is not spoken, it will never be used other than research
Re: One cannot revive this...
by jack back on Jan 23, 2015 07:17 PM
Both Sanskrit (north) and Tamil (south) are required to thoroughly understand the concept of languages. Once the concept is understood, the implementation and use of any language becomes easy and fun. Anyway all indian languages have derived from these two.
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Only those who want to dig old culture and theories should learn it, our language is Hindi. Few oldis just for name sake-want to drag India in the past.
Re: Sanskrit
by Krishna on Jan 23, 2015 12:00 PM
Mr. Agarwal, you are right, there is no point is resurrecting a language, which has only symbolic value. But you are wrong, when you said our language is Hindi, because Hindi may be your language, but it is not the language of many other Indians. SO what is your choice? My suggestion is don't be so nationalistic and over enthusiastic in spreading your language to the rest of the country. If may damage the fabric of the nation. Rather let the status quo exist. India will survive even if some Indians are not fluent in Hindi.
Re: Re: Re: Sanskrit
by swaminathan ranganathan on Jan 23, 2015 06:48 PM
I can understand when a peron from TamilNadu has reservations on learning Tamil. The words Karunanidhi, Dayanidhi, Ramadass etc are derived from Sanskrit. Therfore the opposition is superficial and not indepth. However when someone says his language is Hindi and not Sanskrit then it shows his levels of ignorance as Hindi itself is derived from Sanskrit. A person who knows Sanktit can truly understand the greatness of our culture which is being destroyed systematcally by the opponents of our ancient . culture.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Sanskrit
by swaminathan ranganathan on Jan 23, 2015 06:56 PM
It should be read I can understand when a person from Tamilnadu has reservations on learning Sanskrit.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sanskrit
by mohd azmi on Jan 24, 2015 02:25 PM
Its very sad to see many languages dying, just because the generation next finds them redundant. Sanskrit, Tamil, Hebrew and more recently even urdu are fast loosing their existence. Its like, we disrespect of past. Sure communities who forget their past- they are rendered disillusioned in their future. Its very sad affair indeed. These languages are the carriers of our heritage- let them always be there.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sanskrit
by mohd azmi on Jan 24, 2015 02:28 PM
Its very sad to see many languages dying, just because the generation next finds them redundant. Sanskrit, Tamil, Hebrew and more recently even urdu are fast loosing their existence. Its like, we disrespect of past. Sure communities who forget their past- they are rendered disillusioned in their future. Its very sad affair indeed. These languages are the carriers of our heritage- let them always be there.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sanskrit
by sam raj on Jan 24, 2015 07:14 AM
People from TN never had a reservation in learning any language, but when forced/mandated through some channels, it becomes political issue and cannot be accepted.
Hindi Prachar Sabha is in operation to teach Hindi
Today, going back to Sanskrit doesn't make any sense. Instead, its contents can be translated by scholars and made available in all Indian languages for the benefits of people.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sanskrit
by mandook raj on Jan 24, 2015 07:58 AM
Sanskrit is recognized throughout the world as the richest, oldest and most suitable for computer science. Nothing more is needed to know the value of this ancient language. No amount of propaganda against it will devalue the language.
