Rescuing the past for future
by Mandira Nayar

The Hindu    Translate This Article
New Delhi, India
6 September 2004

On 6 September 2004 The Hindu reported: India's National Mission for Manuscripts has taken up the daunting task of reviving ancient languages of the country by training young people to decode the manuscripts which, until now, only a very few in India could understand. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of culture, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

The mission is searching for code breakers who will work with its team of manuscript savers so that the vast knowledge in these scripts can be passed on to posterity. 'Some of these manuscripts are written in scripts no longer widely read—like Brahmi, Kharoshti, Sharda, and Grantha—and there are only one or two persons now living who can actually decode them,' Sudha Gopalan, the director of National Mission for Manuscripts said.

He said that the Mission wants to organize workshops to train young people 'to be able to read, edit, as well comment on texts'. The aim of the Mission is to enhance spiritual, artistic, intellectual, and scientific knowledge in the country through these manuscripts.

The first such workshop on manuscript logy and palaeography was held in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh province; and the second one in Ahemdabad, Gujarat province. In future workshops, the old students will teach the new ones in collaboration with the other academic institutes which have expertise on manuscript logy.

Ms Gopalan revealed that 35 trainees and 15 resource persons are involved in workshops which normally last for two weeks. 'We train people in more than one script in each workshop and plan to organize at least five workshops this year,' she said.

The Mission also plans to preserve the information in these manuscripts electronically so that even if they are lost in the future, the knowledge will live on.

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