This one program if implemented assiduously by all the Samskrit lovers and Samskrit teachers all over India and abroad can take the Samskrit language to crores of homes. It has the potential to be a game changer in Samskrit teaching apart from making people aware that Samskrit is a simple spoken language, lakhs of people speak Samskrit and any one can learn it easily. But the greatest contribution it could make is connecting our kids and younger generation with our knowledge heritage through Samskrit, initiating them into learning the most ancient but equally modern, most refined and the richest language of the world and taking a step ahead towards fulfilling a civilisational aspiration of Bharat.

Many of the parents have an earnest desire to teach Samskrit to their children. But neither are they able to fulfil it nor are the schools doing it effectively. This program could be a great beginning in this direction.

The proposed plan is that all the school going children should be encouraged to memorize a story in Samskrit and its video be uploaded in social media. If memorization is not possible, let the student practice to pronounce it correctly and its audio record be uploaded. Stories may be downloaded from www.sambhashanasandesha.in Sambhashana Sandesha is the most popular monthly magazine of Samskrit. It has a popular column, Balamodini, for children’s stories. About a thousand such stories were published in it for the last 25 years. Those stories are simple in language and high by values. Hence, they are ideal for rendering. But stories may be taken from other sources also. Prior Samskrit knowledge is not a must for memorizing or reading the story. In fact, reading or memorizing the stories will be a stepping stone to learn Samskrit. For those who study Samskrit at schools, it will help them to practice conversation in Samskrit. Even the parents also will benefit from it.

The videos or audios of the stories should be uploaded in social media like Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, Instagram, Koo, Signal, Twitter, etc by all the students or their parents. Alternative arrangements for uploading may be made for those children who do not have social media account. Every student should tell as many stories as possible and each story may be uploaded separately. Efforts should be made to maximise the viewership of each story. Maximum number of children participating, each student telling maximum number of stories, each story getting maximum number of viewership and maximum number of Samskrit lovers and Samskrit teachers working for this project in this year will be crucial factors for the success of this project. This program need not be only school centric. Any lover of Samskrit or a group of them can take up this activity.

A subject becomes popular for any one of these three reasons – Money, Success and Prestige. Learning Samskrit should be made a matter of prestige in the community. At the end of 19th century and in the beginning of 20th century, as part of the Hebrew revival movement, all the children who were able to give one hour lecture in Hebrew were felicitated by the community elders due to which all children and parents were aspiring and preparing for that great occasion in their life and thus Hebrew became a fashion among the youth. Even in India, the early ones who studied English were publicly honoured, English educated were held in high esteem, and the impact was so severe that even today many parents with a false-prestige insist their kids to speak in English rather than the mother tongue. We need to reverse this trend. Children who tell more stories in Samskrit should be felicitated publicly or at least appreciated and recognised. Hundreds of students telling thousands of stories in every school should be a common feature all over the country. Every child in every home should be encouraged to practice a story in Samskrit.

Let every one of us strive to popularise Devavani through this program - Post Stories in Samskrit. Let our tongues and mobile phones be the new instruments of change in Samskrit learning and teaching. Let Samskrita Sarasvati dance on the tongues of our children. Let Samskrit be heard in the corridors, classrooms, staffrooms and playgrounds of every school. Let speaking Samskrit be a new fashion. Let every home be a Samskrit home. Let Samskrit sounds reverberate in every nook and corner of the country!