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 ...
06 Oct, 2023, 02.07 PM IST
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There 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 ...
31 May, 2022, 12.07 AM IST
Bihar MLA from Asaduddin Owaisi's party takes oath in Urdu, but insists word 'Hindustan' be replaced with 'Bharat'It left the pro-tem Speaker Jitan Ram Manjhi visibly bewildered who pointed out that as per convention those who take oath in Urdu said "Hi...
23 Nov, 2020, 04.43 PM IST
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.
01 Feb, 2020, 04.43 PM IST
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.
12 Oct, 2019, 10.30 AM IST
Mahadevi Varma: The activist, poet Google Doodle is celebrating todayBorn on March 26, 1907, Varma received the Jnanpith Award on this date in 1982.
27 Apr, 2018, 10.15 AM IST
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...
17 Sep, 2015, 09.16 PM IST
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...
12 Jul, 2015, 12.11 PM IST
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.
29 Apr, 2015, 10.24 AM IST
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...
15 Jan, 2015, 06.24 PM IST
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.
18 Aug, 2014, 05.32 AM IST
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...
17 Jan, 2014, 07.58 PM IST
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.
08 Dec, 2011, 07.15 AM IST
Practical benefitsAn insight into some of the great writings, including particular scriptures, would convince that these have been evolved to guide humanity ...
02 May, 2011, 05.12 AM IST
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...
25 Apr, 2011, 03.04 AM IST
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...
10 Jan, 2011, 03.53 AM IST
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...
09 Mar, 2009, 01.46 AM IST