{"id":42860,"date":"2017-02-28T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=42860"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:51:03","slug":"assam-government-makes-sanskrit-compulsory-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=42860","title":{"rendered":"Assam government makes Sanskrit compulsory in the schools &#124; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: The All Assam Sanskrit Students&#8217; Union (Aassu) and the Assam Sanskrit Sahitya Sabha said on Monday that the Assam government&#8217;s decision to make Sanskrit compulsory in the schools will prevent western impact on state&#8217;s culture.<br \/>\n&#8220;Along with the English language, our students need to study Sanskrit to learn about their civilization, art, culture and literature. Making Sanskrit compulsory in schools is a historic decision,&#8221; said Jayanta Malla Barua, working president of Sanskrit Sahitya Sabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: The All Assam Sanskrit Students&#8217; Union (Aassu) and the Assam Sanskrit Sahitya Sabha said on Monday that the Assam government&#8217;s decision to make Sanskrit compulsory in the schools will prevent western impact on state&#8217;s culture. &#8220;Along with the English language, our students need to study Sanskrit to learn about their civilization, art, culture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}