The Malaysaian Airways flight went via Kualalumpur. I reached Bangkok about 10:30 AM on the 27th June. Prem Nagar, one of the co-authors of our papers was already at the airport having taken the direct flight from Boston. Prem Nagar's company was most useful in the trip in handling the logistics. He is a careful researcher and is extremely dedicated to dig into the heritage of India. An organized man, he works for the Oracle Corporation. We met some of the Conference volunteers at the airport who guided us to a taxi to our hotel. We were booked in Holiday Inn at Bangkok for the next eight days. The Conference venue was at a different hotel about five miles away. The organizers had arranged shuttle service between the locations. World Sanskrit Conference is held every three years and this was the 16th. There developed western interest in Sanskrit in the eighteenth century through the European desire to discover a "homeland." Various incomplete and extrapolated work helped to construct a proto Indo-European language in order to establish a common "mother" to the European Languages and the Indian languages. That Sanskrit speakers might have migrated to establish the European settlements is believed by many but lacks historical evidence. After two hundred years of work, there are two distinct camps of scholars. The early western historians articulated war and plunder to establish Sanskrit in India. Such hyperbolic writings were forced into the textbooks through the colonial rulers. India's history needs be fully rewritten. It is a task for the new youth. The new ruling party in India understands that Sanskrit is India's heritage. It is committing itself to deploy resources to help establish institutions and support research. There has been a camp to declare Sanskrit as the national language of India. The Government of India had facilitated a contingent of two hundred fifty persons to the Conference led by Mrs Sushma Swaraj, the Minister for External Affairs. Mrs Swaraj knows some Sanskrit and did read her address to the Conference in Sanskrit. There were delegates from about sixty countries. This was the first time I was attending such a Conference dedicated to Sanskrit and to a language. I have been interested in languages and I write essays and poems occasionally. Linguistics and language research are a different science. I have been motivated on the phonetics after I read my father's book on Oriya linguistics. That languages are created to express our thoughts to the world became the new novelty to me. I have dedicated the last two years to study the nuances of speech, articulation and the neurological processes of converting a thought to a word. We have brought our work to be presented at the Conference. Our papers are scheduled for presentation on Tuesday June 29.
