7. Madhav Deshpande | Bridging Sanskrit Traditions
My guest this week is Madhav Deshpande. Read more about him here and here. Take a look here for a list of many of his publications and here for his Sanskrit textbook, In talking about his early life, he mentions the stotras of Śaṅkara, and the upanayana and sandhya cermonies. (And yes, I know I managed to bungle those pronunciations a bit in the podcast! ) Among the many places of education in Pune, there are Deccan College and Fergusson College (see also here), which have b...