I took up Sanskrit, the classical language of ancient India, as an optional language course at school in Secunderabad, in India's Telangana state, because it seemed easier to learn than the only ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- So, you think searching for things in English on the Internet is frustrating? Well, try searching for documents written in ancient Sanskrit, modern Hindi and any of dozens of Indian ...

Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of ...

NEW DELHI — In a tiny flat in a rundown alley in New Delhi, Mr Rakesh Kumar Misra is working against the odds to bring India’s ancient Sanskrit language to the country’s millions. The 4,000-year-old ...

A Johns Hopkins University senior and her faculty advisor, actor and theater arts professor John Astin, are offering the community the chance to see something unusual: a one-night only performance of ...

stands before 70 high school students and compares politics in modern America and the Italian Renaissance to teachings in the ancient Indian treatise called Leaders often spout lofty goals, but ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was presented with a collection of Chinese translations of ancient Indian texts and yoga sutras to mark his visit on Sunday. The presentation of the books by Hangzhou ...

Among the world's canon of great stories of war - Virgil's "Aeneid", "Gone with the Wind", "War and Peace" - the longest epic is "The Mahabharata". The 200,000-line Sanskrit poem tells the story of a ...