DPS boys give ‘Kolaveri Di’ Sanskrit twist

As three students of Delhi Public School (DPS) at Koba in Gandhinagar sang Sanskrit lines saying - 'Taat baalakaaha ! Aham gaayani geetam, dukha geetam' - the song had an effect upon the audience, just as 'Kolaveri di' did to the youths through the internet. In fact, the Sanskrit lines meant -'Yo boys! I am sing song, soup song', which are lines from 'Kolaveri di'.

The students of class 10, Neel Mohanty, Rushi Prajapati and Manish Jain are now recording the song to be uploaded in the Youtube.

The students who have been learning Sanskrit as an elective subject in their school have also been taking various initiatives to popularize the language among other students.

The translation of 'Kolaveri di' into Sanskrit is one of their latest such feats. While the students translated the song themselves, the music is a karaoke version of the original Kolaveri song which they downloaded from the internet. "Sanskrit is the root of all languages and it only a privilege to master the language. Our idea is to popularize the language among the youths and save it from extinction," said Mohanty who wants to become a graphic artist.

Mohanty has written short stories in Sanskrit and illustrated them into comics.

Sing 'Despite of choices of other languages like French and Hindi available to the students, Sanskrit has received an equally good response from the students at DPS, Koba. "We offer Sanskrit as an elective subject from classes 5 to 10 and as much as 20 percent of the students opt for the subject," said Sanskrit teacher at DPS, Koba, Bhavin Pathak.

Talking about his love for Sankrit, Jain who wants to pursue mechanical engineering after school said, "Sanskrit is so rich with knowledge many theories like nuclear power, which scientists are discovering only recently, have already been scripted in ancient Sanskrit manuscripts. So knowing the language might help me stumble into some great scientific theories in the manuscripts."

Talking about their plans for the song said Prajapati said, "We will soon be uploading the song in Youtube. We hope to get a good response from the viewers and people will start humming 'Katham esha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di' which means 'why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di'."

We will soon be uploading the song in Youtube. We hope to get a good response from the viewers and people start humming 'Katham esha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di'...