For the first time since Partition, a university in Pakistan is teaching Sanskrit. It started as sociology professor Shahid Rasheed’s passion project—‘languages build bridges’
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Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
What days. Educated Pakistanis can consider Sanskrit and Sanatana the ‘soul of South Asia’, find Devanagari ‘so artistic [and] profound’, but Bharatiya mullah maulana class will forever deem it haram and even try hard to speak an Urdu without any Bharatiya traces (though it’s impossible).
Anyway happy to see the part of the world I am from embracing its heritage. Let’s hope for a Sanskritic revival and (inshallah) in the future, a Dharmic renaissance.
What days. Educated Pakistanis can consider Sanskrit and Sanatana the ‘soul of South Asia’, find Devanagari ‘so artistic [and] profound’, but Bharatiya mullah maulana class will forever deem it haram and even try hard to speak an Urdu without any Bharatiya traces (though it’s impossible).
Anyway happy to see the part of the world I am from embracing its heritage. Let’s hope for a Sanskritic revival and (inshallah) in the future, a Dharmic renaissance.