where
our poetry stands? in a nation where poetry was evolved many millenniums BC, yes-before
Christ. Then Read it in light of the hastag? #NationalPoetryDay?
Are
they pointing towards the Indian Poetry or they are pointing towards the poetry
brought from an alien country to India? We should see our Indian literature in
light of development of literature in other parts of world. Where was the
literature of those countries when our ancient poets, created such a rich
treasure. But in present times people turn blind when name of #Sanskrit comes.
Most
of ancient works were in Sanskrit therefore those who don’t know Sanskrit cry
loud and try to project our Sanskrit as something backward, and praise English?
When English was born? But do they believe that any other language will not
take place of English?
Chinese
or French or German, Japanese? People speaking these languages do not read
write or speak English? Even English of USA and UK are very different from each
other.
Sanskrit
in this land has played a role of unification of many cultures, faiths,
traditions, local languages, philosophy, Music, arts, Architecture etc. How can
we forget Sanskrit? It is our Root. Root to many Indian Languages. But due to
some invaders and rulers we have been cut off from our roots. Thus new
generation do not know about our great Indian rich Literature. Neither they
study about literature in school nor they listen or learn in their homes. The
past and present generation is to be blamed for that.
If
ruling parties can decide that there should be reservation on basis of caste
then they could have given the first place to Sanskrit among all our Indian
languages. But politicians fought over languages also.
AbhinavGupta
went to Kashmir and wrote in Sanskrit. Adi Sankaracharya from Keral went around
India and communicated with people at various places. He created his treasures
in Sanskrit. I mean in those times most of the works were written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit
was the easiest mode of communication. From Kashmir, Kamroop-Kamakhya,
Manipur(Sankar Dev), Ujjain, Magadh, Kashi-Banaras-now Varanasi, Jaipur,
Baroda, Pune(poona), Mysore everywhere Sanskrit was understood by scholars.
Discourses were done in Sanskrit.
Aryabhatt,
Bhaskaracharya, Katyayan, Panini, Ayurveda, Kalidas, Chanakya, Jayadev, all
wrote in Sanskrit. What is status of Sanskrit today?
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