Devabhasha – The Language Divine
To celebrate the World Sanskrit Day on August 15, we dedicate the present issue of ‘Renaissance’ to Sanskrit, the divine language.
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छात्रप्रश्नाः (A Student’s Questions)
A college student from Mumbai, who had attended a Sanskrit appreciation and learning workshop at Sri Aurobindo Society expresses her love for Sanskrit in this poem.
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The Wonderful World of Children’s Literature
We review three new Sanskrit books for children published by Samskrita Bālasāhitya Parishad. These books reflect the diversity of children’s literature in Sanskrit – one is a book of rhyming songs, the other is a collection of short humorous stories and the third is a beautifully illustrated story book.
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Is Sanskrit Relevant Today?
Volume 1, Issue 6Author: Sampadananda Mishra One finds many vague ideas floating around with regard to the history, practicality and use of Sanskrit. Let us first clarify some of them. Sanskrit is not just a scientific language, it’s a language of science. Computer programming languages have not yet been written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is not
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New Life for Sanskrit: Lessons from Hebrew Revival
Are there some lessons for India in the story of the revival of Hebrew language? This article briefly explores this question and presents some specific ideas in this regard.
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Data Science with Bhagavad Gita
This article presents an interesting analysis of high frequency words in Bhagavad Gita which can help us discover important linguistic cues in this highly revered and deeply significant scripture.
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समृद्धसंवृद्धसंस्कृतम् (Rich and Thriving Samskrita)
This article tries to dispel some common misconceptions about Sanskrit. The author is a passionate learner of this language and has also recently started teaching beginners in Canada.
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The Psychology of Indian Nationalism – 9
In this part, A V Sastri briefly outlines how the unique Indian spirit of nationalist struggle for independence led by Sri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak and others was gradually replaced by the moral-ethical nature of Gandhian call for political freedom. He also writes of the limits of such moralistic attempts.
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The Psychology of Indian Nationalism – 10
In this part, the author argues that the time of moral phase of nationalism is over. The need of the hour is a spiritual nationalism, but before we get there we must recognise the ethical-moral development as a necessary stage in human evolution.
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