Bangalore: Sanskrit, the god’s own language (Deva Bhasha) and called the world’s most ancient one, has suddenly fallen flat unwept.
The world’s highest expert on the subject, Asko Parpola, Professor Emeritus of Indology, Institute of World Cultures, Helsinki, Finland, has said Tamil is one of the world’s oldest languages, much older than Sanskrit. What a slap on the face of the “gods on earth”?
Barking dogs: Receiving the “Classical Tamil award” at the World Classical Tamil Conference at Coimbatore (TN) on June 23, 2010, the world famous expert gave a shock to the protagonists of Deva Bhasha that Tamil is as old as 2600- 1700 BCE (Before the Christian Era). Even the Brahmin Rig Veda found in the Indus Valley about 1,000 BCE had some Dravidian words. People from North India descended from the Indus people, he said.
But the Brahminists are least bothered. Thousands of Parpolas may “bark” about Tamil but they will continue to insist that, Sanskrit is the world’s (and even India’s) most ancient language and every media and book written by their tribe will repeat it loudly and drown the voice of Parpola.
Dr. Ambedkar after a great deal of research might have said the language of Indus Valley was Tamil but who cares?
Brahmin rush for English: They have already started making Sanskrit compulsory in schools. Sanskrit All India Radio broadcastes are there every morning though their own govt.-run Sanskrit colleges are not getting Brahmin students. They are giving scholarships to Dalits and offering inducement to join such colleges.
But the Bhoodevata boys and girls are rushing to English school.
Today the rulers are restricting English but moving heaven and earth to thrust Sanskrit down the throat of Dalits.
