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HRD minister tables Bill in Lok Sabha to set up central Sanskrit varsities

The three Sanskrit deemed universities that will be converted into central universities

Hyphenating language and religion: Protests push Sanskrit back into shell

The popular perception of Sanskrit being a language of religion has only become more entrenched by the protests at BHU, writes Amrita Singh

BHU row: Priyanka backs appointment of Muslim professor in Sanskrit dept

BSP president Mayawati too on Thursday blamed the government for the controversy, saying education and politics of religion or caste cannot be linked.

Book review: No clash of cultures in India during the Persianate age

Richard Eaton employs rich empirical detail to demonstrate that intellectual encounters between the Sanskrit and Persian worlds were not tied to any one religion and that the two were not hostile

Letters: Rethink stance

With reference to the report, "Karunanidhi gives veiled threat to Centre on Sanskrit" (June 13), the Sanskrit versus non-Sanskrit debate is not new.The Centre's inclination towards imposing this language on states certainly carries an element of coercion. But the outright opposition to Sanskrit by some political leaders in south India is also unwarranted. Article 51A of the Constitution makes it a fundamental duty of every citizen of India to preserve the rich heritage of our "composite culture". According to the constitutional expert late D D Basu, the foundation of this composite culture is Sanskrit language. This is attested by the Supreme Court ruling in the "Santosh Kumar and Others versus The Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development" (1994) case. In it the apex court observed that "though the people of this country differed in a number of ways, they all were proud to regard themselves as participants in a common heritage; and that heritage emphatically is the heritage of