Dear Friends,

I hope you don't mind the self-promotion, but I would like to share a short article of mine, published today, in the Wire.

The data is based on 18 months of analysis and provides specific comparative rationalization of Sanskrit tokens from the 2011 and 2001 census data. Of course, this doesn't prove anyone speaks Sanskrit. It shows where people, who care enough to identify as a speaker, were at the time of the census enumeration.

In this regard, I have worked to generate maps of affect - down to the sub-district level - to show in which teshils we find the highest numbers of people who returned Sanskrit as their L1, L2, or L3.

This article is just a glimpse. I have a few peer reviewed articles coming out that elaborate in much more detail, where Sanskrit speakers might be.