Sanskrit And London

A well-known UK-based Sanskrit scholar and the Executive Director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan centre in London has been conferred an honorary MBE by King Charles III for services to Indian classical arts in Britain.

Sanskrit may be resource starved and may find fewer pupils in India, but there are schools and universities in the UK where the language is thriving. At the St James Junior School in London, the number of students wanting to learn the language has grown by leaps and bounds.This chain of schools has been teaching Sanskrit since 1975. Over the years,...

A well-known UK-based Sanskrit scholar and the Executive Director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan centre in London has been conferred an honorary MBE by King Charles III for services to Indian classical arts in Britain.

Sanskrit may be resource starved and may find fewer pupils in India, but there are schools and universities in the UK where the language is thriving. At the St James Junior School in London, the number of students wanting to learn the language has grown by leaps and bounds.This chain of schools has been teaching Sanskrit since 1975. Over the years,...