Sanskrit Open Weekend Report
SANSKRIT OPEN WEEKEND – April 10 & 11, 2010
What a wonderful weekend of Sanskrit. A total of 30 people came to enjoy this wonderfully satisfying language. Various aspects of the Sanskrit Language Study were presented for all to enjoy.
Our guest for the weekend was Dr. Anuradha Choudry from India. Anu spends much of her time teaching Sanskrit and was recently an assistant teacher in the day schools in Ireland teaching Sanskrit to children.
Anuradha Choudry
Dr. Anuradha Choudry is a graduate from the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Puducherry and completed her Ph.D in Sanskrit on Vedic Psychology under Dr. K.E Dharaneedharan from Pondicherry University where she sought to show the practical application of this new kind of psychology in our daily lives.
As a volunteer with Samskrita Bharati, she is an active advocate of Spoken Sanskrit and has conducted many 10 day Spoken Sanskrit camps in Bharatam and abroad.
The activities over the weekend included Singing the Grammar (video), Chanting, Conversation and lots of fun. A gallery of still photos is available below.
Listen to a sample of the wonderful sound of Sanskrit sung by Anu: …like to download more?
Dianne Kruger and Anu took each of the two groups in turn for vocab, simple sentences, singing the grammar and chanting prayers and mantras. Many of the students present were new to the study however, their enthusiasm and willingness to participate in all the activities was a testament to the way in which the Sanskrit language instills confidence in those presented with it. Indeed by Sunday afternoon there was such competency among all participants that each group was able to perform a short play in Sanskrit for each other.
Dhanyavada Anu, punamilama.
