Chamu Krishna Shastry

**Chamu Krishna Shastry** (dem born am 23 January 1956) be Indian Educationist wey dey work for de revival of de Sanskrit language. He be de trustee den Secretary of Samskrit Promotion Foundation. He sana be de co-founder of Samskrita Bharati. Now he dey spearhead movement say he go teach *Sanskrit Through Sanskrit*. Insyd 25 January 2017, Government of India announce "Padma Shri" award insyd de category *Literature and education* for ein contribution towards de promotion of Sanskrit.

## Ein Early life
Dem born Shastry for 23 January 1956 insyd Kedila village near Mangalore (Bantwal taluk). He learn Sanskrit from de Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha for Tirupati. As teenage Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker, dem imprison Shastry for de Emergency. As na he be alone for the cell insyd, na he dey read biographies. Insyd de writings of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar den Swami Vivekananda, he learn how Sanskrit go fi unlock scientific, mathematical den medical knowledge wey dem bury insyd ancient Sanskrit texts.

## Ein Career

### Speak Samskrit movement
Krishna Shastry, along plus some of ein friends, start de ‘*Speak Samskrit*’ Movement insyd 1981 from Bangalore. Ein method of teaching Sanskrit be say he go make de student mow am for de same language insyd rather than through anoda language by translation. Learning Sanskrit go fi be forbidding exercise secof dem dey teach am through translation. So say you go make am easy give de students, Shastry ein method no be say you go learn de language thru grammar, but say you go teach Sanskrit as dem dey speak am. Students for no wrestle plus de nuances of sam arcane syntactics. Ebe easy say you go master de language, say even semi-literate menners go fi opt for de course.

### Samskrita Bharati
De movement eventually evolve go not-for-profit organisation Samskrita Bharati, sam voluntary body wey dey commit plus de cause of Sanskrit. Shastry efforts lead go de development of de very popular "*Ten-day Sanskrit Speaking Course*" of Samskrita Bharati. He inspire sam dedicated work force give Sanskrit across de country wey dey lead de propagation work for various states. Samskrita Bharati den Shastry dey implement *10 day course* through sam network of 250 full-tym workers den 5,000 Sanskrit Bharati volunteers. Esana help say dem dey offer de course for free. Samskrita Bharati enable nearly one crore menners say make dem mow den converse insyd de Sanskrit language, one lakh of wey decide say he go use Sanskrit for house insyd true ancient style.

Shastry ein efforts sana lead chao universities den colleges make dem adopt de communicative teaching method for Sanskrit. Insyd de US, SAFL (Samskrit as Foreign Language) be sam popular course among de kiddies of Indian origin. Samskrita Bharati be active all over India den insyd 13 countries wey dey include USA, Canada, UK den de UAE. De organisation get credit plus de revival of Sanskrit insyd Gujarat.

### Ein Vision
Shastry dey see Sanskrit as India ein lingua franca. He say, *"Till now dem dey see Samskrit only as sam spiritual anaa religious perspective; ebe high tym dem go approach Samskrit from sam scientific point of view too - (Till now Samskrit has only been seen from a spiritual or religious perspective; it is high time Samskrit is approached from a scientific point of view as well)."* He dey suggest say Sanskrit go be unifying factor insyd India.

Shastry dey believe say dem for take Sanskrit go under-privileged. He dey echoe Dr. Ambedkar's support for Sanskrit as platform for dem dey take enable social upliftment den equality.

### Samskrit Promotion Foundation
Krishna shastry help start de *Samskrit Promotion Foundation*, wey be sam institution insyd developing Sanskrit Tutorials give students wey dem dey produce various new course materials give "Sanskrit for Special Purposes" sam not for profit trust, wey dey aim say ego "popularise Samskrit" insyd India again den among other objectives leverage Samskrit as sam "effective tool" wey go socially den economically "empower de weaker sections" of de society. De trustees dey include eminent citizens like former Chief Justice of India R. C. Lahoti, for Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami, Justice Rama Jois, S. Gurumurthy, among others. Shastry be key trustee den secretary of dis trust.

### Ein Influencing policy
Shastry dey spend chao of ein tym for teacher training, workshops, making of learning material den discussing Sanskrit education plus policy makers. He dey believe say not just Sanskrit as language, but dem for teach modern subjects like chemistry, maths, history etc. plus Sanskrit.

Na he sana be member of de Central Government wey Sanskrit Committee wey develop de "*Road Map for de Development of Sanskrit – Ten Year Perspective Plan*" document insyd 2016.

### Others
Ein extensive experience insyd education den teaching methods lead am go de Board of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan top den chao other universities.

Shastry be renowned speaker wey dem highly dey regard am for ein fluent den fiery oratory insyd Sanskrit. He dey believe for de dictum of de Bhagavad Gita insyd say ego work towards sam goal without expectations wey etake  personal vow say eno go accept honors den awards. He be prolific writer wey he rep chao books den numerous articles insyd Sanskrit. 

## Ein Books
He rep 13 books for Sanskrit language insyd.

* *Savdhana Syaam* 
* *Utthistatha Ma Svapthaha* (*Get up! Don't Sleep!!*) 
* *Parishkaaraha* (*Essays in Sanskrit*) 

## Ein Awards

* *Saraswata Sudhakara* in 1984 from Kashi Pandit Parishat
* *Rashtriya Yuva Puraskar* insyd 1985 from ABVP
* *Padma Shri Award* insyd 2017

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