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A write-up by Swathi Krishnan - Sharaddhaa2008 attendee - who is from Connecticut and will be a 10th grader next year.
Suprabhatham! a cheery voice calls out in
Samskritam. The daily wake-up call has been announced. As I groggily
open my eyes, I repeatedly ask myself why I am even awake at 6:00 in
the morning… during the summer! Eventually (after a few short doses
back into the wonderful realm of sleep), I ready myself for another
fun-filled day at Shraddhaa, a camp for teenagers to learn the
beautiful, but uncommon spoken language of Samskritam.
I first
became interested in Samskritam when I took a break after I completed
middle school to learn dance and music for a year at Kalakshetra in
Chennai in 2006. My mom was taking Samskritam classes, so I tagged
along with her to attend a couple of classes. It was there that I began
to appreciate one of the most ancient, rich, and melodic languages. As
one of my Shraddhaa teachers said during the camp, “Everything just
sounds better in Samskritam. Take the word ‘tree’. Compared to English, vrikshah, just sounds more majestic!” After returning to the U.S in
2007, I was determined to learn to speak Samskritam. When I first heard
about Shraddhaa, I was excited that there was actually a camp that
teaches people my own age.
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Sanskrit college in ruins - Leaky roofs, absent tutors mar institution |
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ARTI SAHULIYAR
Ranchi, June 18: India's classical language might be gaining popularity in the west but an institution here teaching Sanskrit is in a pathetic state.
Students of, Ganpati Rajkiya Sanskrit College, suffer because classes are often cancelled during rain due to the leaky roof.
"Classes are irregular," said a student from Daltonganj, Rupesh Kumari Tiwary.
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Shraddhaa 2007- An Awakening Of The Mind |
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An article by Jay Pandya, an 8th grader from Ocean, NJ , and an attendee of shraddhaa2007
05/13/2008
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we talk of Samskritam, it is usually in some connection to the Vedic
hymns. For our parents, it was just a subject in school. But Sanskrit
is more than just the language of our scriptures. It is a symbol of the
Hindu culture and its use is rapidly declining. As Indians, and more
importantly Hindus, it is our responsibility to preserve our mother
tongue. One organization that is trying very hard to do this is
Samskrita Bharati, a non-profit organization promoting the Samskritam
language, through various camps in the US and India.
Click here
for the external link to the full Lokvani article.
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Blogging in Sanskrit binds Indian students overseas |
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Pune: Guess what's keeping together our high-tech gizmo Indian students at various US universities, pursuing higher studies? It's an online Sanskrit magazine.
Indian students, alumni and faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Maryland (UMD), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Caltech, Purdue and so on are bringing out an online Sanskrit magazine under the banner of Campus Samskritam Network (CSN). Hosted on the www.speaksanskrit. org website, the webzine is called 'Vishvavani' (the voice or the language of the world).
Last week the third issue of Vishvavani was released, featuring a wide range of topics. It had an article on ancient Indian mathematics by Prabha Mandyam, (Ph.D. student at Caltech), another on Swami Vivekananda by Harichandan Mantripragada (Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University) and a travelogue by Dr. Jyotsna Kalavar (associate professor at Penn State University).
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January 12th declared Sanskrit Day in Washoe County, NV |
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Reporting on an event in Washoe County in Nevada, a member of the news media reported "It would seem Sanskrit has become the flavor of the month in some parts of the United States. Last week, a two-day Sanskrit seminar, the first of its kind in Nevada, concluded in Reno with chanting of Sanskrit shlokas (verses) by Andrea Forman, lead singer of Shanti Shanti, the only Sanskrit rock band in the world."
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