Rajan Menon writes --
It would be interesting to know why India is not in the forefront of linguistics. I would assume that this was an area where Indians would naturally excel given its rich heritage of Sanskrit.
To give an example- there is what is called an International phonetic system. It is a rather pathetic attempt to try and fit the Roman alphabetic system into a phonetic system as it is in Sanskrit. Why not just use an expanded devanagri system instead of trying to fit a round peg in a square hole as happens when Roman alphabets are used for the international phonetic system.
What is the status of linguistics in India? How does it fare in comparison to what is happening in the rest of the world?
Variants of the Sanskrit based phonetic systems are used in Thailand, Burma(?), Cambodia, maybe Laos, and traditional Indonesian. There may be more. This is an area that is almost 1 billion people. India taking the lead in this would benefit this population group and would be a great soft power asset for India.
Why not a devnagri/Sanskrit based computer programming system. Given its logical structures etc. I would imagine that it would be a much better way for computer programming than Roman/English based system. Has anyone looked into this? Imagine what would happen if it was shown that a devnagri system would always be 50% faster than a comparable Roman based programming language.
In any case, given that India has billion plus population it makes sense to start computing based on the Sanskrit language template since it is the common language of this region. As long as computing is done in Roman it will always be an obstacle and handicap for the majority of Indians.
Raja sekhar writes royaldeccan99@gmail.com
I would like to present my perspective on this topic based on my upbringing in a South Indian language exposed to regular practices in Hindu rituals.
First we have to go to the origins on Sanskrit and linguistics. Sanskrit originated before linguistics evolved and was used as 1 for communication ,administration and education 2 for science and knowledge 3 for unseen and invisible spiritual Vedic practices.Unfortunately the secular India and westernised Hindus treat Sanskrit as corona virus.
From oral practices, Sanskrit moved to utilise linguistics to pass it down the generations. Sanskrit is like a satellite and linguistics are like a rocket launch vehicle. At present two scripts devnagiri and Telugu are perfectly compatable to Sanskrit propagating above item 3.Regarding item 1 and item 2 practices ,multiple languages using various scripts are used all over the world.
What is used in in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia is not variant of Sanskrit but variant of Pali script, and Telugu belongs to this family. Fundamentally item 3 of Sanskrit is evolved from swaras ie sounds and there is only one variant which is in practices in all Vedic schools. These swaras evolved from 7 chakras in our virtual body. NO script outside India is compatable to item 3 .
Present day keyboards have both Devanagari and Telugu scripts and item 3 practices of Sanskrit are in practice today. Why the west is keen to penetrate Sanskrit ? Not to buy a ticket to heaven but To unlock the scientific knowledge hidden inside Sanskrit slokas. Our ancient Rishis used Sanskrit slokas to quantify and describe scientific events. Numerals subsequently evolved to quantify these events. Only one publishing house, Banarasidas in Delhi is translating the slokas knowledge into English with numerals that too out of passion.
German universities are breaking their heads to recruit engineers and academicians having Sanskrit back ground to unlock intrinsic meaning and hidden knowledge in slokas. AVATAAR movie is event from 1 of the 8 siddics powers ie parakaya pravesh ie migration of aathma from one body to another. LUCY, a brilliant movie gives a scientific analysis as to what happens when humans use more than their brains rated 10% capacity. One can see past and have immortality with virtual body. This is what is stated by our Rishis which is linked to kundalini Shakti.
All I can say is west knows more about India and Sanskrit and westernised Hindus are groping in the dark. Shri RM is the only witness to this.
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