Sanskrit Voice on NDTV

The media and technology is now being used to revive the ancient Indian language - Sanskrit!

NDTV profiles SanskritVoice.com, a website set up by US-based Sanskrit enthusiast Seshu Karthick.

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• sanskrit
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• sacred
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[rkrishp99]

Who said Sanskrit is a dead language the NDTV is really just paid and wooed by Christian missionaries... to make Sanskrit as dead language it is a pity. The effort by Sanskritvoice is really appreciated.

[tomtomttom]

It's funny how people say Sanskrit is a dead language. It clearly isn't, there are well over 50,000 people that use the language on a daily bases and well over 2,000,000 people that can speak it. Everyday more and more people are learning the language from around the world and they come from many different ethnic backgrounds.

[sakredfire]

@hatke159 brahmins don't speak Sanskrit to EACH OTHER do they? If they did I would agree with you. Learning Sanskrit in order to study scriptures, or even to write sutras and books of knowledge, is not the same as using it as day-to-day SPEECH. Honestly, its not a waste of time to argue with me because I am only interested in the truth. I would be very interested to find a group of brahmins that spoke Sanskrit in their day-to-day interactions AND HAVE BEEN for a long time.

[hatke159]

@sakredfire And what about the brahmins who are learning Sanskrit from ages..

Lol.. it's waste of time arguing with you...

A dead language is something which have no speakers atleast for some period of time...

Sanskrit continuously had speakers through out the ages....

End of discussion..

[sakredfire]

@hatke159 That's because it was taught to them. Sanskrit WAS a dead language, but now there are a few places where its being brought back as a spoken language. I wouldn't be commenting here if I hadn't seen the video =).

[hatke159]

@sakredfire Look at this video and you will see a whole village which speaks sanskrit in day-to-day conversation..

/watch?v=IMWostFwwJc

If you dont have time then Watch it from middle... In the beginning there are advertisements....

[sakredfire]

@hatke159 Have people in uttarakhand been speaking Sanskrit in day-to-day conversation since ancient times? If so, amazing. If not, then I disagree with you. There's nothing wrong with being a "dead language." Latin is a dead language. From wikipedia:

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers.[1] Extinct languages may be contrasted with dead languages, which are no longer spoken by anyone as his or her main language

[hatke159]

@sakredfire you are the ignorant person.... It is spoken by many people as first language... It is one of the state languages in uttarakhand where there are many people whose mother toungue is sanskrit... also there is a whole village in MP which speaks sanskrit.. even their education is done in sanskrit...

[sakredfire]

@rkrishp99 Don't be silly...Its a dead language in the sense that it isn't spoken anymore as vernacular. Why would they be running this story if they are paid and wooed by missionaries?

[TheCivilEngineer22]

ancient languages and texts? this is ridiculous.. becoz almost everywhere we see sanskrit.. in gayatri mantra.. in everyday words in all languages are derived from sanskrit.

[kwantumspin]

what an irritating accent. biatch

[cray0308]

NDTV are whores of christian missionaries. sanskrit if far from dead when there are millions of bharateeyas who can read, write and speak it. these people hire pretty bitches and pass off the crap they spew as news. good job with the website though.