{"id":10572,"date":"2011-10-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/22\/sanskrit-daily-on-the-brink-of-extinction\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:00:00","slug":"sanskrit-daily-on-the-brink-of-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/22\/sanskrit-daily-on-the-brink-of-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit Daily on the Brink of Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/nation\/12042-sudharma-on-brink-of-extinction.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA, October 9, 2011 (dailypioneer.com): The world&#8217;s only Sanskrit newspaper, published from Mysore, is struggling to survive for want of financial support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sudharma&#8221; editor KV Sampath Kumar told The Pioneer he was on the verge of closing the unique daily due to a great financial crunch. &#8220;We need more than Rs. 60,000 (US$ 1,200) per month to run our paper which has a global circulation of over 3,000. We are not even getting advertisements to sustain the paper.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The two-sheet, tabloid-sized newspaper, published six days a week, was founded in July 1970, born from a desire to keep alive an ancient language that is the root of our cultural history. Kumar, a Sanskrit scholar, took over the paper after his father&#8217;s death. Assisted by his wife (also a Sanskrit scholar), two close friends and a few other Sanskrit scholars&#8211;all of whom work for free&#8211;he has carried it forward for 20 years without a break, bringing into the present the great traditions of the past, ranging from Hindu scriptures to yoga. There is also a web edition which is popular worldwide, receiving 29,000 hits per day.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the financial challenges, Kumar wants to continue this labor of love. But he needs help to do so. &#8220;I need support of the Government and advertisers to take this forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BANGALORE, INDIA, October 9, 2011 (dailypioneer.com): The world&#8217;s only Sanskrit newspaper, published from Mysore, is struggling to survive for,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}