How to Love in Sanskrit is, at once, an ode to our old languages, and their manuscripts, which are rotting away, even as people like Rao and Mahesh hope they can “get to them before the bugs do”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given a unique and spiritually charged welcome as he arrived in Rio de Janeiro for the 17th ...

Sanskrit-Prakrit love poetry was in conversation with treatises such as ‘Kāmasūtra’. This image features scenes from the text in a Hindu temple.

DMK Minister EV Velu on Friday sharply criticised the Union Government for allocating Rs 2,500 crore towards the development ...

Speaking at a public event in Vellore, Velu allegedly mocked the Sanskrit verses typically chanted during Hindu wedding ...

DMK Minister EV Velu recently mocked Sanskrit verses used in Hindu weddings, questioning the language's relevance and the ...

Sanskrit has too often been regarded as the sacred language of the gods, yet it is love that has been the overwhelming obsession of Sanskrit writers for over 3,000 years.

Sanskrit and Urdu have evolved with the South Asian sub-continent, meandering close and far from each other, for as long as we can remember. While Sanskrit is considered the oldest and purest Indian ...

Sanskrit, it would seem, is too serious a language to write love poems in. The ‘language of the gods’, with too much tradition and religion attached to it, woul E-PAPER ...