india, linguistics, Ganesh Devy, history, panini, bhratrihari, languages, colonization

“Language is not only a social system of verbal icons, arbitrarily assembled through ages, it is also a ‘means’ of carrying forward the cumulative human experience of millennia to the future generations. When language trajectories are snapped, the accumulated wisdom in those languages too gets submerged and continues to survive in severely truncated, irreparable, and insensible forms.”