'India-What It Can Teach Us?'-Malayalam version hits market

Malayalam translation of German linguist Max Mueller’s book ‘India-What It Can Teach Us’ an anthology of lectures written in the 18th century is available in market now. K K C Nair, former editor of the National Book Trust of India has done the translation.

Prof M K Sanu released the Malayalam version, a few days back in Kochi.

The book contains seven lectures given by Max Mueller to the ICS students of Cambridge University.

In his book, he has described India as an epitome of virtuosity. Giving more details about the author’s Indian connect, K K C Nair says, “Mueller is one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies. Since, Sanskrit was thought to be the oldest of the Indo-European languages, Mueller had devoted several years towards learning the classical language. Swami Vivekananda had once paid a visit to Mueller in Oxford. Impressed by Mueller’s spirituality and physical brightness, Vivekananda described him as “Vedantins of Vedantins”.