The Department of Classics has expanded this year with the addition of Professor of Classics James Fitzgerald, a noted scholar of Sanskrit, to its faculty roster. Prior to his appointment at Brown, ...

Anyone looking for readable translations of Sanskrit classics couldn't do better than the Clay Sanskrit Library Series. This publication programme was started in 2005 by an American couple, John and ...

The story of Rama has journeyed beyond the confines of India into Southeast Asia and into East Asia, not just in Valmiki’s Sanskrit version, but also in myriad retellings in other languages, dramatic ...

when desire calmed does stay. Translations from classics can open new doors, both for the reader and the translator. The verse above is from my translation of Kalidasa’s Ritusamharam, which came out ...

STEERING away from the usual Shakespearean and Greek classics, the Durban University of Technology drama and production studies department began staging a fifth-century classical Sanskrit masterpiece ...

After a hilarious Saturday evening, Sunday saw a rich ancient heritage treat with a classic play “Bhikshu aur Ganika” staged at Tagore Theatre on the second day of the ongoing second Chandigarh ...

Owing to the pervasive distraction of COVID-19, Malayalam readers may have missed a notable event: the first translation into their language of a 12th century Sanskrit classic, Rajatarangini. It is by ...

A book of poems, a classic Sanskrit play and a novel on the strained relationship between a corrupt guru and his disillusioned former disciple are on the weekend reading list A Sanskrit play, a book ...

A well-known UK-based Sanskrit scholar and the Executive Director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan centre in London has been conferred an honorary MBE by King Charles III for services to Indian classical ...