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@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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