"While we battle each other on the streets on whether Sanskrit should be revived in the school curricula or not, top notch western universities have been busy churning one esoteric dissertation after another on Panini's Ashtadhyay and comparing Bhartihari's and Patanjali's grammatical logic."
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Ajit Kumar Jha, "Why Is The West Crazy About A 'Dead' Language?" The Indian Express, June 10, 2001.
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