Sudharma, the world's only Sanskrit daily, published from Mysore celebrated its 40th year on Sunday, the Indian Express reported. A special anniversary issue was brought out to mark the occasion. The newspaper's readership comprises mainly of Sanskrit scholars and students.
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Sudharma has a daily circulation of about 2,000 copies and is mostly circulated through post. The paper, which strives to revive Sanskrit as a spoken language, has subscribers in countries like Japan and USA.
"According to popular perception, Sanskrit, like Latin, is not spoken outside academia," said Ramchandra, a resident of Mysore," This is not true." The newspaper was launched by Kalale Nadadur Varadaraja Iyengar, a Sankrit scholar, in 1970. The purpose of the paper was to revive the Sanskrit language.
On its launch, many believed that the endeavour would fail. However, it did not. KV, Sampath Kumar, son of Varadaraja Iyengar, is the current editor of the paper.
