Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 17th February 2009

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Category: Sanskrit, Sponsored Artists

Suchita Parte is the first artist I am sponsoring.
Now, let me be blunt. A good deal of singing in Sanskrit sounds very stuffy. I’m talking about work which is technically flawless but sounds like it has been recorded 2000 years ago. It is fine but it does not sound very [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 20th August 2007

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Category: Language, Sanskrit, South Asia

Memorization has been devalued too much in Western pedagogy. This is especially problematic in the context of learning Sanskrit.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 19th July 2007

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Category: Hindi, Language, Media, Religious Studies, Sanskrit, South Asia

I found a book in a bookstore labeled with a Devanagari word I could not initially recognize. Was it the name of an ancient author? The name of an obscure philosophical school? No, it was something much more familiar.