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The jewel in the cobra's mouth.(Critical Essay)
In 1843, Sir Charles Napier conquered Sind: and a year later Punch carried a cartoon of the victorious general with the caption "Peccavi," that is, "I have sinned" The Latin pun is often attributed to Napier and could have been his, given his wit and dash. And perhaps he did feel a bit sinful. Two years earlier, while at Poona, he had remarked, "Our object in conquering India, the object of all our cruelties, was money. Every shilling of this has been picked out of blood, wiped and put into the murderer's pocket."
Still, Napier was a savage and ruthless commander and it would be anachronistic, as well as plain wrong, to read simmering anti-colonialist sentiments ...
- Sanskrit echoes around the world.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor July 5, 2007 700+ words
...Latin 101 - that would be easy. This is Sanskrit, a classical language that is the Indian...ancient Greek or Latin. Today, spoken Sanskrit is enjoying a revival - both in India...United States. There is even evidence of Sanskrit emerging in American popular culture...
- Learning Sanskrit will soon be a click away
- News wire article from: The Hindustan Times August 27, 2009 700+ words
Lucknow, Aug. 27 -- Teachers of Sanskrit are soon going to put online a module...anyone to log on to the internet and learn Sanskrit, the mother of most Indian languages...to develop, propagate and encourage Sanskrit learning, the varsity and its various...
- Lauding Japan for Sanskrit conference, Hindus ask for restoring Sanskrit to its...
- News wire article from: Asian News International September 8, 2009 700+ words
...Kyoto University for hosting prestigious World Sanskrit Conference, which concluded on September five...criticized India Government for not doing enough for Sanskrit promotion. Sanskrit should be restored to its rightful place and needed...
- Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: International Journal of Humanities and Peace Grinlington, Bryce January 1, 2003 700+ words
Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit by Sampadananda Mishra; Institute...India. There is no doubt that the Sanskrit language made a very deep inmpression...ancient and classical creations of the Sanskrit tongue ... in the front rank among...
- Requiem for Sanskrit.(currents)(discontinuation of the Clay Sanskrit Library...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Regier, Willis Goth March 1, 2009 700+ words
The Clay Sanskrit Library powerfully affirms Sanskrit's contributions to world literature, ethics, and religion...to its goal, English readers would have found the way to Sanskrit literature paved for them with handsome books bound in emerald...
- Sanskrit helped Europeans attain tolerance.
- Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India) May 26, 2009 700+ words
Thane, May. 26 -- Sanskrit, attributed as the Mother of all languages...Bedekar. Delivering a lecture on 'Sanskrit learning in Europe after the 15th century...languages and their dialects, the Sanskrit scholar said the complex Hindu philosophical...
- Initiation pratique a l'etude du sanskrit bouddhique.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society SALOMON, RICHARD July 1, 2000 700+ words
Initiation pratique a l'etude du sanskrit bouddhique. By BORIS OGUIBENINE. Collection...other textbook for the study of Buddhist Sanskrit, namely Franklin Edgerton's Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1953...
- Sanskrit and Evolution of Human Speech, Based on Sri Aurobindo's Linguistic...
- Magazine article from: International Journal of Humanities and Peace Coudry, Anuradha January 1, 2006 700+ words
SANSKRIT AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SPEECH, BASED...Mishra, in the introduction to his book Sanskrit and the Evolution of Human Speech. A...processes. Records show that the discovery of Sanskrit in Europe gave a new impetus and direction...
Source: HighBeam Research, The jewel in the cobra's mouth.(Critical Essay)