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...latest piece of his strategy is the launching of a $755 million satellite venture called Agrani (Sanskrit for "staying ahead"), which aims to provide satellite telephone service to the more than 50% of Indians who still do not have reliable phone access. "What satellites do best is provide connectivity to remote areas," he says. The satellites will also allow Zee to beam its programs around the world. Once he gets "sat phones" into the hands of ordinary Indians--he thinks it will happen within two or three years--Chandra will start pumping Internet content and e-mail services through them...
...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 greater adherence to it among young Indians. "We have to change the thoughts and attitudes of my generation," he says...
...survival of Hindu traditions has been imperiled for centuries, first by Muslim invaders and then by British imperialism. But both were minor nuisances next to the colossus of Western--which is mainly to say American--culture. "My friends are enthralled by the West," Narayan complains. He believes Sanskrit is the way to lure them back. He frequently holds 10-day workshops throughout India, teaching people spoken Sanskrit. When he visits his boyhood village, his father watches him instruct local youngsters. "I think he feels bad because I am not making much money," says Narayan. "But he is proud because...
According to Witzel, Ingalls once wrote in a student handbook, "Sanskrit is a difficult language--students are advised not to take...
...would return to Cambridge and gather Sanskrit students together just to read for an evening in his apartment on Memorial Drive," Eck wrote...