The centrepiece of the first Sanskrit Day, celebrated across the country on August 27, 1969, was a two-day convention of Vedic recitation in New Delhi. The event... advertisement ...

The emphasis of India's new government on Sanskrit has sparked a fresh debate over the role language plays in the lives of the country's religious and linguistic minorities.

The antiquity of Indian culture can be understood by the classical nature of the deeply evolved twin languages—Tamil and Sanskrit. The South Indian tradition, right from the Sangam age (3rd ...