SanskritVoice March 9, 2008
Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Non-Profit , trackbackThe most popular posts on eIndia are entertainment-related (no surprise there), suggesting that writing more about that category should increase visitor traffic. But one of the advantages of not being ad-supported is that I write about what I want.
So here is a review of a site that will be uninteresting to the bollywood-obsessed Indian masses. SanskritVoice is a not-for-profit project by Sheshu Karthick, with the objective of reviving public interest in Sanskrit. It’s an unpretentious site, where you can learn Sanskrit words at your leisure (via RSS or email) and read/share articles related to Sanskrit language.
The content is still ramping up, but it has a good aggregation of Sanskrit resources (like the Sanskrit dictionary search). I like the idea of campaigning the learning of an ancient language and creating a community around it. Much better use of the internet as ‘knowledge infrastructure’, especially when you contrast it with useless communities like Kayastha2Kayastha or infernal initiatives like DesiSexTube.
SanskritVoice finds good company with other non-profit Indian web initiatives like PositiveSaathi and IDontWantDowry. Hope they find sustenance in ad-based model or donations.
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kayastha….. is certainly having loads of juck data and they dont even trim it up.. I also found marryakaystha.com - Kayastha community matrimonial website. This has limited number of profiles and the response also comes from other profiles. Good for kayastha community to have such dedicated websites.