IP College to start centre for Sanskrit

NEW DELHI: Starting this academic session, Indraprastha College for Women will start a Sanskrit Studies and Research Centre, where original text in Sanskrit will be studied and translated.
The college will also have a new Centre of Music Archives, along with a listening room where students of all disciplines will be allowed to explore lost music and arts, recordings of the college’s in-house radio and other interviews conducted during fests and archived.
The principal, Babli Moitra Saraf, said the centre will primarily focus on archiving old and lost audio, as well as ongoing current events that have been recorded. “The listening room will not be restricted to music alone, but several books that have been written in their original language will be available in the form of archives, interviews and conversations about dying dialects, the college community-radio programme and other forms of art will be available to students in this room,” said Saraf.
This centre, according to her, is a step forward in preservation of the heritage of Delhi and other forms of art, which have been slowly dying away.