The Infosys Prize 2025 in Humanities and Social Sciences was recently awarded to Professor Andrew Ollett, who teaches at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of ...

World Sanskrit Day, also known as Vishva-Samskrita-Dinam, is celebrated annually to honor one of the world's oldest and most revered languages Sanskrit. The day aims to promote its learning, preserve ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a favourable atmosphere has emerged across the country for the resurgence of the Sanskrit ...

There is a word in Sanskrit used commonly—punarjanma—which means rebirth. It signifies transmigration of a soul across lifetimes, with every incarnation bearing the karmic residue of everything that ...

Language has remained one of the key political differences in Indian polity. Despite the slogan of unity in diversity, the push for homogenisation surfaces time and again. That is why the New ...

Sanskrit and Urdu have evolved with the South Asian sub-continent, meandering close and far from each other, for as long as we can remember. While Sanskrit is considered the oldest and purest Indian ...