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Patricia Sauthoff

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

February 26, 2015
Culture

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

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