Don't Let Sanskrit drown

Sanskrit is believed to be a primary language and is a mother of many languages spoken all around the world. It is referred as God’s language. But today this ancient treasure of words has lost its identity and soon there will be a generation which will be absolutely unaware about the roots of their lingo. Why talk about its world recognition if Sanskrit is despised in its own land and the struggle for its existence is on. India is the place where this language was born.  

I’m not nullifying the contribution of some responsible people who are taking steps for the revival of Sanskrit. The state of Uttarakhand has become the first state in India to declare Sanskrit as its official language, but we hardly see any one using that language for communication. Declaring any thing or making the laws is not the solution of every thing. Why is everything only on papers?  There should be proper implementation of laws and regular surveys and checks. And these steps have become very crucial because it is a stage of “now or never”.

 Well, Wikipedia shows us that according to the 1991 Indian census we have 49,736 fluent speakers of Sanskrit and please note that these are twenty years old records and the only records I can get through internet. If in many millions of people we have only some thousands of fluent Sanskrit speakers you can very well understand the state of this primitive tongue.

Today Sanskrit is widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras. And also Sanskrit is one of the academics subjects up to 8^thstandard in many states of India. And spoken Sanskrit is still in use in few traditional institutions in India. Apart from this Sanskrit is no where.

Are we waiting for the funeral of Sanskrit?  Why are we so pre occupied with other foreign languages, when we already have such a great language that has taught the world how to speak? Is this not our duty to contribute for the gratitude of something that is passed on to us by our great great ancestors??