Word: samskrita
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Talk to Laxmi Narayan, and you will find out that the war for India's soul is being waged in places like the Samskrita Bharati, a tiny school housed inside a temple complex somewhere amid the tangle of dark, narrow alleyways in the heart of New Delhi. There Narayan, 27, along with scores of other pupils, spends his days studying the sacred and literary language of ancient India, Sanskrit. Narayan could just as easily learn Sanskrit in a university, but at Samskrita Bharati he is part of something larger: a crusade to restore the purity of Hindu culture and promote...
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