The Vedas and Panini
The Vedas of India are known to be the oldest existing literature in the world. Literature has a value proposition to it as against the...
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit is not an easy language to master. It captures the essence of human communication and prepares a framework as our mind prepares...
"India Studies" and the West
Indian knowledge system in the early period of India got organized into six distinct branches of inquiry. There is no orderly...
Arts and Education in Sanskrit
We have now set up a routine for the Conference: get up at 5 AM, have coffee, review the previous day's seminars, share views and issues,...
Studying inscriptions
Writing like music is an art. It is a process of recording our speech for possible future use. It is believed to have developed through...
Inscriptions, script, alphabet
The similarity of the Khmer alphabet to the Oriya alphabet fascinated me. The Oriya alphabet has not been easy to be classified because...
Chennai
I am on my way to Chennai, the southern city in Tamil Nadu, "the Land of the Tamils". Tamil is an old community in India having a...
Seminar at Sri Aurobindo Society
The lunch fare was as democratic as earthy. There were wheat chapatis, rice, thick dal, a vegetable stew. There were boiled eggs in a...
Return to Bhubaneswar, My sister's doctoral thesis
We returned to Bhubaneswar early evening. The Car Festival in Puri had some incidents. Among the temples in India, the priests in Sri...
Odia Language meeting at Bhubaneswar
The current view of Odisha would look depressing to anyone who admires her history. Many of the African countries are still struggling...
