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[Bharat Gupt]

Aditya, the Cheerful Hindu Skeptic wrote:
>
> Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan <vijay at VOSSNET.CO.UK> has written as follows:
> >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
>
> This is your imagination.
> I have no evidence to accept that Indian "establishment" is anti-sanskrit.
> If anything, it is either pro-British English or pro-native languages.

Evidence:

A premier institution established to create think tanks, and
policy makers and academics, the JNU, is yet to begin teaching
Sanskrit at any  level. It has had a full School of Languages
and Culture but without Sanskrit.

No matter of chance, a matter of deliberate choice made to
demean sanskrit. The  Nehruvian mind-set had no place for sanskrit.

best,

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