{"id":687,"date":"2001-04-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/04\/11\/2001-04-11-prime-minister-appeals-for-sanskrit-revival\/"},"modified":"2001-04-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-11T12:00:00","slug":"2001-04-11-prime-minister-appeals-for-sanskrit-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/04\/11\/2001-04-11-prime-minister-appeals-for-sanskrit-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Appeals for Sanskrit Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indiaabroaddaily.com\/2001\/04\/05\/05sanskrit.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 5, 2001: &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be better if we simply began chatting in it?&#8221; quipped Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee at the World Sanskrit Conference held last Thursday. A well-attended conference of Sanskrit lovers and scholars met to discuss music, art, yoga, history and philosophy. The Prime Minister&#8217;s appeal to popularize the ancient language brought some skepticism from the gathering. However they whole-heartedly supported the leader&#8217;s promise to provide government funding to publish original manuscripts and to give Sanskrit an equal place in Indian society. Presently the English language has brought India information and technology. &#8220;But,&#8221; said Vajpayee, &#8220;It must not take the place of our own languages.&#8221; One Croatian professor claimed exposure to the Indian ethos via ancient texts helped him overcome grief in the ethnic war and led him to organize relief and humanitarian work. &#8220;Western-style capitalism and consumerism is eroding traditions and cultures the world over. Sanskrit has values for India that can check cultural degeneration and teach values to a generation that is taken in by computer games,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 5, 2001: &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be better if we simply began chatting in it?&#8221;,&#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-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}