Click to play videoNew Delhi: Sanskrit-speakers are a minority of sorts in India. A linguistic minority, ironically, in a country where lies the genesis of this language.
The reason is obvious: Sanskrit is not exactly a living language and does not always come attached with politics of the living.
But now, in more senses than one, Sanskrit is truly becoming a minority language in the country’s Capital.
In a drastic attempt at challenging stereotypes, a madarssa in Delhi has made Sanskrit education its calling card.
But is this an isolated case or is the demand for Sanskrit education really growing?
Imam Maulana Shaheen would like us to believe that Sanskrit it indeed getting popular, at least in madarssa.
Shaheen along with his 20 students from the madarssa at Batla House in Delhi is currently participating in the second convocation of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan.
"We wanted to study scriptures and learn about Hindu religious texts and this in a way helps you in understanding the religion better," he says.
The Sanskrit Sansthan, a deemed university is now regularly sending its graduates to conduct three-month preliminary course in madarssas.
“Employment is a problem as much a problem as it is for any other graduate," says Vice Chancellor of Sanskrit Sansthan, Acharya V Kutumb Shastri.
A capsule of five such courses makes a madarssa student eligible for admission in a graduation course.
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