There can never be an “Indian Renaissance” until you’re writing peer-reviewed science and philosophy in Sanskrit on the highest levels of discourse

Till the language and culture of the elite stay foreign, it’s fundamentally impossible to achieve any civilizational recuperation

Obviously this isn’t possible for a myriad of reasons. Neither am I suggesting people to stop learning Hindi or English. Simply pointing out what a civilization that is actually producing native research and innovation would tend towards. It’s a simple thought.

The reality is no civilization on Earth can truly aspire to achieve true greatness or even look up to it when it’s fundamental language & prestige culture are foreign.

By very virtue of logic, when a foreign language is your elite tongue, your native culture is subservient.

There is zero secret that entirety of Renaissance had scientists and artists who wrote their research entirely in Latin. Nor is Germans producing native research in German or Japan in Japanese a secret. Now ask yourself why Indians cannot even dream about producing it in Sanskrit

Now the thing is, don’t try to pretend Sanskrit is still an elite language in India; it simply is not.

Don’t try to pretend it’s still alive by pointing out to 50,000 speakers.

Be honest. Sanskrit is now being preserved in elite discourse by a tiny number of Brahmins.

An elite language means every parent in every echelon of society wants their children to learn it. It means nations outside your own learn it just because it is elite.

It means there is active scientific & philosophical discourse in it every single day by millions of people.

When you learn a language you learn it’s culture and it’s civilizational history. You seek inspiration from its great poets and philosophers & read them in class.

This is why you read Shakespeare and William Wordsworth in School and not Kalidasa & Banabhatta.

Doesn’t almost the entire world consider English the prestige tongue?

Yes, but most countries are orbit states of a particular civilization-state. Estonia or Latvia are never becoming “civilizations” of their own. Nobody on Earth will ever consider Estonian a “prestige tongue”

Harsh, but fairly true. Estonia and Latvia are orbiters part of the civilization of Europe. They can never amount to a world culture of their own. (Same with say Nepal)

However, India is an entire civilization-state. It hasn’t been an orbit state, for most of recorded history.

If you want India to be a producer of high culture and science it cannot ever be in a dialectic that is foreign. You’ll simply remain a perpetual consumer of the Europeans without a firm anchor to keep your ship safe when the sea rumbles.

Hindi is a compromise, compromises rarely produce world beating results. A revival by default stretches back to ancient roots & draws from their well of knowledge, what will MSHindi offer here when compared to Sanskrit?

(Don’t say Awadhi, it’s not the same language) https://twitter.com/darshanik9/status/1354423976165076992

I don't really understand the issue or point you're making here. Do you think 1000 million Indians woke up one fine day and decided to speak or learn the register of Modern Standard Hindi out of spontaneous desire? https://twitter.com/darshanik9/status/1354432913572581377?s=20