{"id":15893,"date":"2018-02-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/02\/13\/iit-alumnus-sets-up-sanskrit-chair-at-iit-madras-for-science-and-technology-in-the-vedas\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:00:00","slug":"iit-alumnus-sets-up-sanskrit-chair-at-iit-madras-for-science-and-technology-in-the-vedas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/02\/13\/iit-alumnus-sets-up-sanskrit-chair-at-iit-madras-for-science-and-technology-in-the-vedas\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Alumnus Sets Up Sanskrit Chair at IIT-Madras for Science and Technology in the Vedas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/education\/iit-alumnus-sets-up-sanskrit-chair-at-iit-madras-for-science-vedas-5056821\/?utm_source=whatsapp&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=WhatsappShare\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, February 9, 2018 (Indian Express): The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) will soon get a Sanskrit Chair, attached to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, to study &#8220;India&#8217;s legacy of science and technology in the Vedas, with special focus on Sanskrit language&#8221;. The Chair has been funded by Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, &#8220;spiritual head&#8221; of the Science of Spirituality and Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission, who is also an IIT-M alumnus. The Chair will be headed by Sampadananda Mishra, a Sanskrit expert and director of Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture (SAFIC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a yogic approach to science and culture. Sanskrit is a scientific language, it is a language that expresses India&#8217;s soul. I hope I will be able to make this language familiar for the youth in IIT-M,&#8221; said Mishra, who has written books like &#8220;The Wonder That Is Sanskrit&#8221; and &#8220;Hasyamanjari-A Book Of Humorous Stories In Sanskrit.&#8221; &#8220;I hope to take charge within a month. I want to show them the great scientific contributions of rishis and saints in ancient India. I have developed a course for students on the achievements of ancient Indian scientists through Sanskrit,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The freedom within the Chair allows me to introduce credit courses on Sanskrit and India&#8217;s ancient science and technology. Students can enroll for PhD programes on these topics,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, February 9, 2018 (Indian Express): The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) will soon get a Sanskrit Chair,,&#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-15893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893","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=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}