http://www.samskritabharati.org/sb/

thanks.

If you have access to JSTOR you might want to read an journal article in “Comparative Studies in History and Society” called “Death of Sanskrit” by Prof. Sheldon Pollock – he wanted to claim that Sanskrit was dead ( well, that Sanskrit is in dire straits is widely accepted, even by traditionalists – I don’t know why he wants to make it totally dead ) – and he, though not in so many words, asks us to “get over it”. I saw a partial rejoinder ( not along Hindutva lines though ) in our bhAShApOShiNi magazine ( which is way better than mAtRbhUmi weekly )! The main purpose of the article is too analyze why Sanskrit “died” – he talks of the “vanishing” of the kashmIr school, regional languages taking over in the vijayanagara empire etc., and he gives instances of Muslim rulers funding Sanskrit. And to say this much he brings in rAmAyaNa, VHP etc., wants Indian Government not to fund creative literature in Sanskrit because so far increased funding produced only mediocre research etc. ( which per se would be fine, if he didn’t himself want funding for his own history research ).

I remember hearing that the UPA government stopped funding to publish some saMskRta-bhArati text books or some such thing – so saMskRta-bhArati had to revert to their old textbooks or so; don’t know the exact issue. Their textbooks are a delight to read, courses are quite scientifically organized, kind of along the lines of how some westerners seem to teach their languages to other countries. But the currently increasing popularity in US should hopefully fund samskRa-bhArati sufficiently well.

BTW if you are interested – they occasionally offer “conference call” classes – on laghu-siddhAnta-kaumudi there was one ( couldn’t attend so don’t know how it was ), there is one on going kumAra-saMbhavaM class etc.

Sorry for the haphazard organization of the comment.