Where on earth does a government recognise languages as classical? It happens only in India! But why? The plain answer is appeasing the linguistic and cultural sub-nationalities―an instance of ...

The languages that earlier had the tag of classical status were Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia. Notably, Tamil was granted the status in 2004 and the last language to get it was ...

One of the recommendations of the committee is that Sanskrit will be offered at all levels of school and higher education as one of the optional languages on a par with all Schedule VIII languages [22 ...

TENKASI: A glaring disparity in the allocation of funds by the Union Government for the promotion of classical Indian languages has come to light. An RTI application filed by The New Indian Express ...

Jaipur (Telangana) [India], April 17 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla extolled the eternal essence of Sanskrit on Thursday, calling it not merely a classical language, but also a profound medium of ...

During my first few days at Harvard, I attended the Advising Fair and wandered into the language section. Thinking I might be interested in Sanskrit, I approached the Classical Languages booth for ...

The Government of India decided to create a new category of languages as "classical languages" on October 12, 2004 declaring Tamil as classical language and thereafter Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, ...

Do you know which language was the scholarly 'lingua franca' of ancient India? Let’s discover the mystery of India’s oldest, ...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet approved granting 'classical language' status to five additional languages on Thursday: Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, and Assamese. With this cabinet decision, the ...

New Delhi (Fides Service) – It serves to understand and study ancient Indian poetry and prose : Sanskrit is a language which helps to probe the Hindu religion and culture. With this in mind the Jesuit ...