Sanskrit Festivals
23-10-2009

Jagannatha

Any Tom, Dick and Harry can talk loosely about Sanskrit. Shocked? This is the plain truth regarding Sanskrit festivals. In order to preach in Sanskrit festivals you need not to be a Sanskrit scholar.

You may be mayor, politician, clerk in Railway department, Managing Director of rural bank-anybody. But you should not be Sanskrit scholar! Some readymade sentences I will teach you. Simply parroting them makes news in news papers.

1.All the foreigners make a penance like Sanskrit, Sanskrit, Sanskrit.2.No scholar is available in whole India, that is bad.3. But Sanskrit is not dead, they ones who declare Sanskrit is dead, themselves are dead! 4.All the Indian languages are born to the mother namely Sanskrit.5.If you will know Sanskrit, you will become omniscient in EVERY LANGUAGE. As a Student of Sanskrit, some times I wonder why I studied Sanskrit.

If I had become MD of any bank or Mayor I would have called Sanskritists to study Sanskrit earnestly. I don\'t understand why these so-called Sanskritists hear nonsensical talks of non-sanskritists and clap shamelessly. Actually the Sanskrit Scholars shall arrange book exhibition of Modern Sanskrit works.

Discussion on Modern Sanskrit literature shall be the core essence of these festivals. Instead of doing these, Sanskrit scholars waste precious time by forcing the audience to listen non-sanskritists' incoherent babbling. Even in discussion regarding establishment of Sanskrit University done in the recent past the talkers were-in most cases- non-sanskritists.

Let them think a while. Do the guys of corporation invite Sanskritists to preside over the function they arrange? Do they listen Sanskritists preaching in corporate functions?

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