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West Can't Confine India Into One Narrative: UK Based Sanskrit Scholar
Professor James Hegarty, an academic in Sanskrit and Indian Religions, who currently heads the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion at Cardiff University said that the West cannot confine India into a single narrative.
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On Gulzar Winning Jnanpith Award, Shashi Tharoor Posts A Throwback Pic
The Jnanpith selection committee on Saturday announced Mr Gulzar as the winner of the 58th Jnanpith Award along with Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
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Gulzar, Sanskrit Scholar Rambhadracharya Chosen For Jnanpith Award
Renowned Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya have been named the recipients of the 58th Jnanpith Award, the Jnanpith selection committee announced on Saturday.
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King Charles Honours UK-Based Sanskrit Scholar For Services To Indian Arts
A well-known UK-based Sanskrit scholar and the Executive Director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan centre in London has been conferred an honorary MBE by King Charles III for services to Indian classical arts in Britain.
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Sanskrit Scholar And Padma Winner Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi Dies At 86
Sanskrit scholar Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi, better known as Vagish Shastri, has died in Varanasi after a prolonged illness, his family said on Thursday. He was 86-years-old.
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Rajasthan To Organise Week-Long Celebration Of Sanskrit Day 2021
In the event organised jointly by Rajasthan Sanskrit Academy and Sanskrit University, various Sanskrit scholars, poets, critics along with senior officers of the state government will take part and deliver lectures on different topics.
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PM Modi Pays Tributes To Sanskrit Scholar Govindacharya's Death
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of renowned Sanskrit scholar Vidyavachaspati Bannanje Govindacharya and said he will be remembered for his great contributions to literature.
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Vidyavachaspati Govindacharya, Renowned Sanskrit Scholar Dies
Renowned Sanskrit scholar Vidyavachaspati Bannanje Govindacharya died at his residence at Ambalpady in Udupi on Sunday due to age related illness, family sources said. He was 85. A propagator of Madhvaideology and a great orator, Govindacharya had been conferred the Padma Shree in 2009.
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Sanskrit Scholar Shankaracharya Madhavashram Maharaj Dies At 76
Badrikashram Jyotirpeeth Shankaracharya Swami Madhavashram ji Maharaj died at the age of 73 on Friday in Chandigarh, where he was staying after suffering a paralytic attack about two years ago.
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Rajasthan University Professor Arrested For Accepting Bribe
An assistant professor of Rajasthan University was today arrested by ACB sleuths for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 here. Mahipal Singh Yadav, posted in the department of Sanskrit of the university, had demanded Rs 50,000 from a scholar for clearing his bills, Additional SP (ACB), Narottam Lal Verma said.
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Vrindavan Widows, Outcasts Tie Rakhi To Priests
In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old Gopinath temple in Vrindavan.
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Sheldon Pollock Stays, Says Rohan Murty On Protests Against Sanskrit Scholar
Scholar Sheldon Pollock will stay on as mentor and chief editor of the Murty Classical Library, Rohan Murty, founder of the multi-million dollar project of translating historic Indian works to English, has said, even as an online campaign for his removal intensified on Thursday.
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Smriti Irani Urges Scholars to Improve Standard of Sanskrit Education
Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday highlighted the need for reorientation in Sanskrit research, and urged scholars to take the lead in popularising and improving the standard of Sanskrit education.
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Historians Debate Chronology of Vedic Literature at Delhi University Meet
Amid a raging debate over incorporation of Vedic education in curriculum, Sanskrit scholars from various universities today engaged over a discourse over the origin of the Rig Vedas and on the influx of Aryans in the country.
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Sanskrit Most Useful for Science, Technology, Says Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh
Advocating the promotion of Sanskrit, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said even foreign scholars have considered it to be one of the most scientific of languages.
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West Can't Confine India Into One Narrative: UK Based Sanskrit Scholar
Professor James Hegarty, an academic in Sanskrit and Indian Religions, who currently heads the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion at Cardiff University said that the West cannot confine India into a single narrative.
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On Gulzar Winning Jnanpith Award, Shashi Tharoor Posts A Throwback Pic
The Jnanpith selection committee on Saturday announced Mr Gulzar as the winner of the 58th Jnanpith Award along with Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
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Gulzar, Sanskrit Scholar Rambhadracharya Chosen For Jnanpith Award
Renowned Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya have been named the recipients of the 58th Jnanpith Award, the Jnanpith selection committee announced on Saturday.
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King Charles Honours UK-Based Sanskrit Scholar For Services To Indian Arts
A well-known UK-based Sanskrit scholar and the Executive Director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan centre in London has been conferred an honorary MBE by King Charles III for services to Indian classical arts in Britain.
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Sanskrit Scholar And Padma Winner Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi Dies At 86
Sanskrit scholar Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi, better known as Vagish Shastri, has died in Varanasi after a prolonged illness, his family said on Thursday. He was 86-years-old.
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Rajasthan To Organise Week-Long Celebration Of Sanskrit Day 2021
In the event organised jointly by Rajasthan Sanskrit Academy and Sanskrit University, various Sanskrit scholars, poets, critics along with senior officers of the state government will take part and deliver lectures on different topics.
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PM Modi Pays Tributes To Sanskrit Scholar Govindacharya's Death
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of renowned Sanskrit scholar Vidyavachaspati Bannanje Govindacharya and said he will be remembered for his great contributions to literature.
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Vidyavachaspati Govindacharya, Renowned Sanskrit Scholar Dies
Renowned Sanskrit scholar Vidyavachaspati Bannanje Govindacharya died at his residence at Ambalpady in Udupi on Sunday due to age related illness, family sources said. He was 85. A propagator of Madhvaideology and a great orator, Govindacharya had been conferred the Padma Shree in 2009.
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Sanskrit Scholar Shankaracharya Madhavashram Maharaj Dies At 76
Badrikashram Jyotirpeeth Shankaracharya Swami Madhavashram ji Maharaj died at the age of 73 on Friday in Chandigarh, where he was staying after suffering a paralytic attack about two years ago.
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Rajasthan University Professor Arrested For Accepting Bribe
An assistant professor of Rajasthan University was today arrested by ACB sleuths for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 here. Mahipal Singh Yadav, posted in the department of Sanskrit of the university, had demanded Rs 50,000 from a scholar for clearing his bills, Additional SP (ACB), Narottam Lal Verma said.
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Vrindavan Widows, Outcasts Tie Rakhi To Priests
In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old Gopinath temple in Vrindavan.
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Sheldon Pollock Stays, Says Rohan Murty On Protests Against Sanskrit Scholar
Scholar Sheldon Pollock will stay on as mentor and chief editor of the Murty Classical Library, Rohan Murty, founder of the multi-million dollar project of translating historic Indian works to English, has said, even as an online campaign for his removal intensified on Thursday.
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Smriti Irani Urges Scholars to Improve Standard of Sanskrit Education
Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday highlighted the need for reorientation in Sanskrit research, and urged scholars to take the lead in popularising and improving the standard of Sanskrit education.
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Historians Debate Chronology of Vedic Literature at Delhi University Meet
Amid a raging debate over incorporation of Vedic education in curriculum, Sanskrit scholars from various universities today engaged over a discourse over the origin of the Rig Vedas and on the influx of Aryans in the country.
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Sanskrit Most Useful for Science, Technology, Says Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh
Advocating the promotion of Sanskrit, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said even foreign scholars have considered it to be one of the most scientific of languages.
