April 27, 2007 10:23 IST: It was a pleasant surprise for President A P J Abdul Kalam when his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias greeted him in Sanskrit at the banquet ceremony hosted in honour of the visiting dignitary. Read more...
I think it's a Big Day for the world moving in the direction of what NASA found years and years ago, viz., that Sanskrit is the most appropriate language for global as well as cyber discourse.
I think it's a Big Day for the world moving in the direction of what NASA found years and years ago, viz., that Sanskrit is the most appropriate language for global as well as cyber discourse.
Perhpas a Mark Shuttleworth or a Nicholas Negroponte will smell a purpose in this direction, or maybe, a Steve Jobs or even a Bill Gates will smell money in this.
Bringing Sanskrit to the children of the world as their main language after their native one is, in my opinion, the single notable service our generation can do for the future - aside, of course, putting the Humpty "climate" Dumpty on the wall. Maybe, there's link between the two that only I am accursed to see.
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