Patricia Sauthoff

Patricia Sauthoff is a journalist and an editor at Mediagazer.

Patricia Sauthoff is a journalist and an editor at Mediagazer.

Patricia holds an MA in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, an MA in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College, and BAs in English and Religious Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Prior to her work at Mediagazer, Patricia was a Summer History Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation, Arts and Literature Editor of the Weekly Alibi and Arts and Culture Editor of the Santa Fe Reporter.

The cast of the Sanskrit play, "The Cleverness of the Thief." Patricia Sauthoff is in the center, wearing white.

Sanskrit is alive and well, but I prefer treating it as dead

There are plenty of people learning Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, and those numbers are growing. But those students typically learn the language to read old books, and it turns out trying to use it as a spoken language is a challenge.

Sanskrit is alive and well, but I prefer treating it as dead