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In 1873, had Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's palanquin not taken a wrong turn, India might never have got 'Vande Mataram'An 1873 encounter with a British officer in a palanquin ignited Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's patriotic fervor, leading to the creation of...- Former Maharashtra minister files plea in Supreme Court against CBSE's 3-language rule for Class 9 studentsA fresh plea filed by Dr Fauzia Khan, an educationist and former Maharashtra ministerhas been filed at the Supreme Court challenging the CB...
- Gulzar, Sanskrit scholar Rambhadracharya selected for Jnanpith AwardRambhadracharya, the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth in Chitrakoot, is a renowned Hindu spiritual leader, educator and writer of more than ...
- Naatu Naatu, Shrivalli in Sanskrit: Music band strikes a chord with audience in Pune, Mumbai, and NashikA Sanskrit Music Band has gained popularity for their unique initiative of creating Sanskrit versions of popular songs and performing them ...
- Anuradha Roy bags coveted Sahitya Akademi Award, 22 others fetedShe received the award for her book 'All The Lives We Never Lived'.
- Eastern consciousnessThere was already a word in Sanskrit for one who's beyond all these meandering issues. Like the Buddha, he's iish-paran(g)mukh. The Buddha ...
- The Budget verse: Nirmala Sitharaman quotes Kashmiri poet Deena Nath Kaul, Tamil saint Avvaiyar, Kalidasa in 2 hr-plus speechSitharaman’s speech had a generous dose of poetry.
- Google celebrates Bengali poet & activist Kamini Roy's 155th birth anniversary with a doodleKnown for advocating women's rights, Roy helped advance feminism in the Indian subcontinent.
- Mahadevi Varma: The activist, poet Google Doodle is celebrating todayBorn on March 26, 1907, Varma received the Jnanpith Award on this date in 1982.
- Sanskrit being reduced to just a subject of discussion: Shiela Dikshit"It is not being promoted the way it should be or deserves to be. We also need to see how the language can be used more in day to day activ...
- Novelist Sudhir Kakar reignites poet Bhartrihari's loveSet in seventh-century city Ujjayini, the book "The Devil Take Love", is a detailed research work about Bhartrihari, arguably the best Sans...
- Meet Venetia Ansell, a Sanskrit translator and publisher with her roots in LondonVenetia Ansell has gone on to become one of the few experts of an ancient language that has given birth to many others in India.
- Rohan Murty Classical Library of India launches with five booksSet up by Harvard University Press with the help of a personal endowment by Murty, the library aims to publish as many as 500 books over th...
- Forget me not!Azamgarh is in the news for all the wrong reasons, but once it was extolled as a nursery of India's Illuminati in ancient times, Durvasa.
- President Pranab Mukherjee gives certificate of honour to language expertsRobert P Goldman who translated Valmiki Ramayan into English and noted indologist George Cardona were given certificates of honour by Presi...
- Love and lossImpermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of life from which nothing that belongs to the realm of earthly existence is ever free.
- Practical benefitsAn insight into some of the great writings, including particular scriptures, would convince that these have been evolved to guide humanity ...
- Senior citizens: Scripting a success storyVijay Laxman Kher writing scripts for radio programmes. What started off as a hobby has turned into a good source of income after retiremen...
- Little drops make the mighty oceanThe seeking aspirant, in his pursuit of spiritual growth towards true effectiveness and 'victory over oneself', would identify all the 'min...
- From darkness to lightThe second part of the great universal prayer from Brahadaranyaka Upanishad (1,3,28) is for being led from darkness to light (tamaso ma jyo...
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