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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For the first time since Partition, a university in Pakistan is teaching Sanskrit. It started as sociology professor Shahid ...
There are 100 verses in Saundarya Lahari, although some versions have up to 103 verses. The first part of forty-one verses called ‘Ananda Lahari’ (Wave of Bliss) describes Devi’s power, her ...
India, Nov. 29 -- Sanskrit means 'perfectly made'. It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded languages. It developed a most comprehensive linguistic system ...