Languages and civilisation | The Indian Express

Languages and civilisation | The Indian Express

Written by M Venkaiah Naidu |Updated: April 5, 2019 12:30:39 am

The writer is the Vice-President of India.

Languages and civilisation

The need of the hour is to promote, protect and modernise India’s classical languages

The great Indian poet Acharya Dandi had said that if the light of language does not exist, we will be groping in a dark world. (File Illustration: Pradeep Yadav)

I was indeed very happy on Thursday to present the President’s award to scholars of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Arabic, Persian, Telugu, Kannada, Odia and Malayalam for their service in the preservation and development of classical languages at an event organised by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. I was pleased that the nation was appreciating and recognising renowned scholars who are keeping alive the traditional knowledge and acting as the intellectual bridge between the past and the present.