Chaatra / छात्रः

The Sanskrit Language Learning Project / संस्कृतभाषाध्ययनप्रकल्पः

The goal of Chaatra is to provide tools for students and teachers of the Sanskrit language.

Goals

• High quality Sanskrit learning experience, centred around the needs of the student.
• Convenient access to Sanskrit literature, with quality translations.
• Scalable language learning platform, which is extendable to other Indic languages.
• Nurturing a community, by bringing together Sanskrit scholars, learners, and teachers to build a sense of community and connectedness.

What Needs to be Built

For Teachers

• Designing courses
• Designing quizzes and examinations
• Distributing class notes
• Community to discuss teaching methods
• …and a lot more!

For Learners

• Self-learning resources
• Access to Sanskrit literature, with translations and explanations
• Community to get in touch with fellow Sanskrit scholars
• …and a lot more!

Contributing

At the moment, this is a one-person operation, and there is a lot of work to be done. Your contributions in any capacity are wholly welcome!

Teachers

• Ideas around how the language can be taught better

Students

• Feedback on what problems you face while learning the language, to build the best tools.

Programmers

This is an open source project, and there is a ton of code to be written. If you are a developer, and are interested in Sanskrit or Indic languages, this is the project for you.

If you are interested in contributing, please reach out to @sribalajig / Balaji Gopinath