Sanskrit as national language

[Sunando Sen]

ucgadkw at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) wrote:

> The Bhasaikatva policy
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> What do other INDOLOGists think of the new policy recently announced
> whereby over the next seven years the Indian Government will phase in
> Sanskrit as the language of all administrative documentation and
> communication?  Apparently the idea is that by the year 2001, senior
> government officials will be sufficiently knowledgable in Sanskrit that
> English will at last be ousted from the constitution as a national
> language of India.  This will expunge once and for all the last
> lingering traces of British imperialism, and underline the great
> historical roots of India's own culture.  The accompanying massive
> program of translation that has been proposed, of European-language
> texts on science, technology and economics into Sanskrit, will be a
> most interesting new development for all of us.  It may even provide
> work for some of our needy grad students!
> 
> Dominik

This is indeed an astonishing news, even more so because our 
constitution declares the intention to establish Hindi as the national 
language at some (unspecified) future point of time.

> Unccl Ncevy 1fg!

Nzq unccl Ncevy 1fg gb lbh gbb!

Sunando Sen