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WOULD THE ŚRĪMAD BHᾹGAVATAM APPEAL TO AN INTELLECTUAL PERSON?
Posted on: 5/5/2019
The relevance of Sanskrit at university
Posted on: 22/2/2019
The Gifts of Sanskrit: An interview with two Sanskrit students in Brussels
Posted on: 17/1/2019
I’d like to share the methods I used to study for the IGCSE examination, in the hope that other students planning to take it might glean some tips.
I found that it’s useful to do even just a little study every day…..
2019 is the last chance to take A Level. Read about the wonderful experience of doing just that!
Posted on: 29/12/2018
Saturday Sanskrit Classes for Adults: Student Voices (3)
Posted on: 27/3/2018
David Stollar, former teacher at St James Senior Boys’ School and member of Sanskrit @ St James, has been offering Saturday-morning Sanskrit classes tailored to adult students. We are here featuring the feedback from some of David’s students. Should these pique your interest, read all about David’s new beginners’ class here.
My Tryst with the Sanskrit Language by Swati Yadav
I stumbled upon Sanskrit looking for an answer to the age old human question – ‘How can we discriminate between what is right and wrong?’. Working in the fast-paced, power-grabbing, pressurised environment of the UK civil service, I quickly realised that, as a leader, the highest skill one needs is that of ‘judgement’ – one’s ability to discriminate very quickly, in extremely trying situations, between right and wrong. Life experience has taught me that this difference gets extremely subtle and harder to make as you climb higher and grow older.
Saturday Sanskrit Classes for Adults: Student Voices (2)
Posted on: 27/3/2018
David Stollar, former teacher at St James Senior Boys’ School and member of Sanskrit @ St James, has been offering Saturday-morning Sanskrit classes tailored to adult students. We are here featuring the feedback from some of David’s students. Should these pique your interest, read all about David’s new beginners’ class here.
A Personal Response to the Study of Sanskrit
On hearing Sanskrit for the first time, a distant memory stirred within me of a world filled with purity and light, and my heart was filled with a longing to reach the source. It was many years later that I had the good fortune of meeting my tutor.
Saturday Sanskrit Classes for Adults: Student Voices (1)
Posted on: 27/3/2018
David Stollar, former teacher at St James Senior Boys’ School and member of Sanskrit @ St James, has been offering Saturday-morning Sanskrit classes tailored to adult students. We are here featuring the feedback from some of David’s students. Should these pique your interest, read all about David’s new beginners’ class here.
My Sanskrit Journey by Sejal Gir
Having grown up in an Indian family in England I’ve always had a keen interest and curiosity about the history of my Indian culture and religion (Hinduism) and more so the mysterious language of Sanskrit, as this is the language used in most of the ancient Hindu texts.
Sanskrit in UK Schools? A One-Day Seminar for Teachers
Posted on: 25/3/2018
Taking a Sanskrit Exam: a Blessing in Disguise
Posted on: 16/2/2018
Kim Ward, who studied Sanskrit using the Sanskrit @ St James materials, talks about her experience taking the IGCSE © Sanskrit exam.
A New Sanskrit/Vedānta Course for Beginners Starting in April
Posted on: 4/1/2018
This is the fourth of these courses I have mounted at about two-year intervals. They lead, after two years, to taking the IGCSE Sanskrit exam.