With these deeply knowledgeable philologists, I read texts akshara by akshara, day after day, year after year. I had to recommend someone to my student with whom he could read Sanskrit in Delhi for a year. I thought of Ram Karan Sharma (once the kulapati/vice-chancellor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi) but he’s 95, confined to a wheelchair, and may not be taking students. I’m a target because I’m an outsider who dares to speak about the inside. As a classicist, don’t you think Indian epics, unlike their Western counterparts, live on in the collective consciousness?

Source: Indian Express May 26, 2018 18:22 UTC