Breaking away from the past, when Sanskrit students could only become scholars or take up jobs as teachers and researchers in schools and higher educational institutions, today, opportunities are opening up in several sectors.
Sanskrit students are now being hired by software companies, civil services, fashion design, food industry, entertainment industry in the creation of serials and movies on ancient Vedas. Sanskrit students are in demand in various art forms like music and dance; now even computational linguistics, astronomists and mathematicians are hiring Sanskrit experts. Many Sanskritists have joined in IITs, IISER, Google, Ayurvedic firms, yoga training centers.”
With the increase in demand for experts in the subject, opportunities are opening up in government as well as the private sector. Jobs for students having basic knowledge of Sanskrit and Natural Language Processing are on the rise. The digitization of ancient scriptures is another area in which Sanskrit students are getting jobs. There are a lot of opportunities in Sanskrit-allied areas such as Yoga and Ayurveda.
Currently, there are 18 Sanskrit universities including 3 central universities in India. Several private universities have introduced Sanskrit Studies. Keep in view its popularity, two universities in the US and one in Nepal is noticing a rise in students.
Premier institutions like IITs are introducing initiatives to promote the language in their campuses. IIT Roorkee’sSanskrit Club organizes lectures by eminent academicians and holds workshops on Sanskrit-based knowledge systems. IIT Kharagpur organizes programmes like Samskrita Week. IIT Bombay has a Cell for Science and Technology in Sanskrit. IIT Delhi has a research group working on Panini’s Ashtadhyayi by applying Machine Learning algorithms.
Sanskrit, one of the world's oldest languages, is experiencing a resurgence in importance and the younger generation can be more sensitized towards the Sanskrit language by teaching Sanskrit through fun ways.
