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India: Sanskrit and Hindutva

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 @ 14:30 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: India
Topics:: Education, Religion, Language

The politics of a classical language, education and secularism in India explored at varnam.

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Kristen

I was hoping for someone to help me translate a phrase from english to sanskrit

# 2008-06-13 at 22:05 pm

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drisyadrisya

Kristen – what is the phrase that you want to translate ?
No promises, but as a Sanskrit lover, I am just curious :-)

Neha, this link turned up on the google news alert for Sanskrit, which I have on my blog…. and hence I ended up here. Thanks for the link to the varnam article.

Interestingly I do not see any analysis or comments from you , just a link… Is that what this site is meant to have ? I have probably seen some of your posts on desipundit

# 2008-06-14 at 3:44 am

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