Indology Days Over ?

" The word "Indology" has a connotation,a time and clime,a purpose that created it and thus it has an associated sense which is more burdening,distorting and disconcerting than it's usual sense in common parlance or if we go for that vogue etymology.

The colonial masters gone and their propagated theories mostly gone,Indology is meeting with cold shoulders in it's old citadels outside India.

How long shall we continue to look at ourselves with the glasses that 'others' used to scan us for a purpose ?

Can we redefine the subject without being laid by the old misleading baggage ? "

Sanskrit and the New Year !

" Whether astronomically correct or not this New Year beginning on January 1 has gained prominence in most parts of the world.Earlier I thought it to be more a wordy and cardy way of expressing the feelings,particularly in India.

Now I got it somewhere that in the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda order this day is named as 'Kalpataru Divas' ! See now the ongoing Kali year is called 'Krodhin' and the coming Hindu New Year is 'Vis'vAvasu' on 23 March 2012 ! That is considered as the day when the creation came to be ! Vide the Puranic statement : jagat sasarja bhagavAn caitrasya prathame 'hani !

This is typical of our indigenous way of naming anything and everything with a name that is factual or based on an aspiration or a promise.And true to it the organization has put it up that way,much in symmetry with Swami Vivekananda's wish to bring the east and west together.

I think let's celebrate this also as the New Year and at the same time not to forget our New Year Day which was once followed all over the civilized world.

And Sanskrit in 20129C.E.) 0r 5113(Kali era) is supposed to grow through IT,sciences and alternative health facilities like Yoga and Ayurveda and a keenness to research in to the history of human ideas and traditions and transactions of knowledge in the world through known and unknown times.

I expect more teachers and students of the foremost language to accept it as a preferred medium in study,teaching and examinations and more so in letters,messages and creative writings.Not to use the language is to do injustice to it.Use it and feel the joy of it,feel it's distinct sweet touch on your tongue and in your mind and heart !"