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...This is a victory of the principles of which our Indian people uphold.' PRATIBHA PATIL, India's first female President, on winning a high (if mostly ceremonial) office in a country where women generally face much discrimination...
...PRATIBHA PATIL, India's first female President, on winning a high, if mostly ceremonial, office in a country where women face much discrimination...
...Once he made his decision, Patil studied Sanskrit at Harvard until he exhausted all of the courses available to him. He then went to the University of Chicago to finish his doctorate. In addition to his university studies, Patil spent summers traveling to India to learn the classical texts in the traditional way. This meant going to the house of a trained teacher each day and examining a text in depth, line by line. Many of his teachers only spoke to him in Sanskrit...
...Harvard, Patil has made it his mission to research both on small and large scales. He studies the last two Buddhist scholars who wrote in Sanskrit in India, and also attempts to recover large parts of ignored South Asian intellectual history...
...Patil says that most people in South Asia, including university professors, have not heard of the classical intellectuals who wrote in ancient Sanskrit...