what is the practical use of forcing sanskrit on indians... it was never used by more than handful of people in india...
just your mother tongue and English should do.. anything extra you need to learn on your own (or as elective along with french, japanese, spanish)
Do you have reading comprehension issues ? ........ my answer is there in the very post you have chosen to question.
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It is the mother of most Indian languages and knowing it will help us strengthen our religious, cultural and social roots."
That sounds pretty practical to me.
What do you mean to say it was never used by more than a handful ?
Almost ALL Indian languages are corrupted forms of Sanskrit. Half of the even use the same or similar script !
Its like saying only handful of people used English since only the grammatically correct and words in the oxford English dictionary is considered english.
An Irish speaking 'english' and a hispanic speaking 'english' saying the same thing will have NOTHING in common. Yet they both speak 'english'.
Sanskirt is the perfect Pure form of the language ...... rest of India used the common languages like Prakrit, Tadbhavas and Tatsama in other languages ranging from Sinhalese, bengali, Telegu, punjabi etc...
The perfect pure form of ANY language is used to write documents and records.....they are rarely used in speech, except by the very learned and very scholarly. How many of us use 'Perfect' english in real life ? That does not mean we stop learning or teaching perfect and pure english to our kids ?
The idea is proposed by an MP from Uttrakhand. Being more Tamil than Tamils for votes I guess.
Maybe .... but that does not take away the merit of the proposal.
