New Delhi: A Lahore-based engineer-turned-sociology professor has done something Pakistan hasn’t seen since Partition: he’s brought Sanskrit back as a field of study. He says he wants to understand the “soul of South Asia.”

“Classical languages carry our collective wisdom. Learning them is a moral project, a project of humanity,” Shahid Rasheed, associate professor of sociology at Forman Christian College, told ThePrint.

What started as a passion project has grown into what has been described as a “renaissance of Sanskrit in Lahore”, starting with workshops and growing into a full course at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Show Full Article

For 52-year-old Rasheed, language is ‘a bridge’. It is a shared history and it begins at home. His first student was his daughter

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