[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit in Pakistan

[Ananya Vajpeyi]

Congratulations are in order then, Antonia!
Warm best,
AV.

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Madhav,
>
> Thank you for sharing this! Here's the original piece in the Tribune that
> The Wire is referring to:
>
>
> https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/sanskrit-returns-to-pak-varsity-first-time-since-partition/
>
> Shahid Rasheed, who is behind this initiative, is a true polymath and
> co-founder of a school trust (
> https://i-care-foundation.org/charity/zaawiya-trust-school/). I think he
> began learning Sanskrit with McComas and has been doing Latin and Greek
> (and some more Sanskrit) with me at Yogic Studies for a while now.
>
> Antonia
>
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 at 17:05, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> A Welcome Development:
>> https://thewire.in/south-asia/in-a-first-since-independence-a-pakistan-university-is-teaching-sanskrit
>>
>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
>> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore,
>> India
>>
>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
>>
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