SV: Did you hear this?

[Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:21:39 +0100, Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse at ONLINE.NO>
wrote:

>Vidyasankar Sundaresan [SMTP:vsundaresan at HOTMAIL.COM] skrev 30. januar 2001
>02:39:
>> Only in India does anything to do with Sanskrit evoke a
>> negative response in the hands of know-it-all commentators.
>
>It is tempting to mention a parallel phenomenon. In he 70's, Norwegian
>students rebelled against the obligatory course in Latin for students in
>the Humanities


I have also heard that students in other european countries rebelled
against the teaching of Latin. This was part of student protests in the
1960s in many countries against the Establishment. Rejecting Latin was part
of rejecting Establishment.

In India, if Establishment is to be rejected, then students will demand
sanskrit since the "secular"  Establishment in India is very anti-sanskrit.
Any idea of sanskrit  evokes images of molten lead down the ears a la Manu