Speak Sanskrit
``Hari Om! Swagatam, Aagatchatu" - traditional greetings in Sanskrit welcomes you at the Samskrita Bharati (28472632) in Mylapore, an All India Organisation that spearheaded the Speak Samskrit Movement in 1981.
The organisation, (in their preceding activities to Sanskrit Day to be celebrated on Sravana Poornima Day - August 19) is beginning their next batch of the `free-10-day-2-hour' spoken Sanskrit classes (Dasa Dina Samkrita Sambhashana Shibiram) at 100 centres simultaneously in Chennai from August 4. This will culminate in a valedictory function on August 14 when writer Jayakanthan will be honoured at Meenakshi College, Kodambakkam.
Samskrita Bharati State Secretary and Sanskrit Professor, R. Ramachandran, and full-time volunteer of the Chennai chapter, Jyothish gives an overall perspective of their nearly 25 years of service to the cause: Propagation and preservation of `our culture, our tradition, our language' is the only motto of this non-commercial organisation. The last five years have seen an enrolment of more than a lakh in our classes.
"Our attempt lies in teaching spoken Sanskrit through Sanskrit only, no translations. We call it the direct method wherein lessons are taught with annotations on real life happenings using applied grammar," says Mr. Ramachandran.
RANJANI GOVIND
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