Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 01:52pm on 12 Dec 2025,Friday India Global
For the first time since Partition, Sanskrit is being formally taught at Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), with students studying Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita passages alongside the Urdu version of the iconic Mahabharat TV theme song. Professor Shahid Rasheed from Forman Christian College spearheaded the revival after overwhelming response to a three-month workshop, now evolved into a university course planned to become year-long by 2027. Rasheed emphasized Sanskrit's regional heritage, noting grammarian Panini lived in present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Dr. Ali Usman Qasmi revealed Punjab University holds extensive untouched Sanskrit documents for decades. The university aims to train local scholars, potentially producing Gita and Mahabharata experts within 10-15 years. (PC: India Today)
