With liberal arts education very much in vogue, he makes a case for Indian classical texts. Pollock was in India to attend the Ashoka University convocation last week and talked about why Indian classical texts are treasures which should be available for everyone. Are there vast areas of productivity and deep knowledge about classical languages within India that I simply don’t know about? When Kannada was named a classical language, I had written a piece on how everyone wants it to be a classical language but nobody wants to study it. Yes, if the culture in embedded in the text I guess we are-I live in a monolingual world and India is the great linguistic bazaar of the world.

Source: Mint May 26, 2018 05:15 UTC