{"id":9041,"date":"2010-05-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/08\/vaak-a-newspaper-in-sanskrit\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T12:00:00","slug":"vaak-a-newspaper-in-sanskrit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/08\/vaak-a-newspaper-in-sanskrit\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaak, A Newspaper in Sanskrit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Articles\/PrintArticle.aspx?artid=980F853E-4C94-11DF-8E65-000B5DABF613\">www.livemint.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 20, 2010: More than three decades ago, when Buddha Dev Sharma was young and nervous about English, he subscribed to a newspaper in English to overcome his fears and learn the new language. Today Buddha Dev Sharma writes, edits and publishes Vaak, Uttarakhand&#8217;s only Sanskrit newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Following stints as a freelance writer with local newspapers in Haridwar and Dehradun, and later a teaching job in the subject at a government secondary school, Sharma took it upon himself to propagate the language he likes to call &#8220;practical Sanskrit.&#8221; &#8220;There was no better way to do it than publish a newspaper,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>In the four color pages in each edition, the fortnightly newspaper touches upon current affairs, a crossword puzzle and a column for general knowledge questions, the newspaper&#8217;s most popular section. The range of news is contemporary&#8211;the Copenhagen summit on climate change, political leadership changes in the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the updates on Indian Premier League cricket matches.<\/p>\n<p>The name Vaak, which means speech in English, is also in line with the purpose with which it was launched: bringing the language to daily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.livemint.com HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 20, 2010: More than three decades ago, when Buddha Dev Sharma was young and nervous,&#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-9041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041","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=9041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}