Murty Classical Library Of India

The Murty Classic Library aims at bringing out four or five translations per year to English readers and since the project focusses on Indian writing over the last 2,000 years, there is a lot to choose from.

Scholar Sheldon Pollock will stay on as mentor and chief editor of the Murty Classical Library, Rohan Murty, founder of the multi-million dollar project of translating historic Indian works to English, has said, even as an online campaign for his removal intensified on Thursday.

It is exciting to learn of the Murty Classical Library of India, writes Phiroze Vasunia.

Very few of us will contest that India's classical, literary heritage is vast and precious. But very few of us have really accessed this heritage. Language is a big issue that comes in the way of both modern day Indians and people around the world dipping into the ocean of India's classical literature.

On 'The NDTV Dialogues', a look at the 'Role of the Classical in Modern India', an idea even more relevant in today's narrative and in a week where a first-of-its-kind initiative has been launched, the Murty Classical Library of India. On the panel are Dr Rohan Narayan Murty, founder of the Murty Classical library, Professor Sheldon Pollock, Editor...

The Murty Classic Library aims at bringing out four or five translations per year to English readers and since the project focusses on Indian writing over the last 2,000 years, there is a lot to choose from.

Scholar Sheldon Pollock will stay on as mentor and chief editor of the Murty Classical Library, Rohan Murty, founder of the multi-million dollar project of translating historic Indian works to English, has said, even as an online campaign for his removal intensified on Thursday.

It is exciting to learn of the Murty Classical Library of India, writes Phiroze Vasunia.

Very few of us will contest that India's classical, literary heritage is vast and precious. But very few of us have really accessed this heritage. Language is a big issue that comes in the way of both modern day Indians and people around the world dipping into the ocean of India's classical literature.

On 'The NDTV Dialogues', a look at the 'Role of the Classical in Modern India', an idea even more relevant in today's narrative and in a week where a first-of-its-kind initiative has been launched, the Murty Classical Library of India. On the panel are Dr Rohan Narayan Murty, founder of the Murty Classical library, Professor Sheldon Pollock, Editor...