Newsletter - Issue 4 (Dec 2017) - 5th YEAR SPECIAL ISSUE In This Newsletter... | Namaste and Greetings from Vyoma Labs !! Thank you for being a valuable part of the Vyoma family! | It has been 5 years since we set out on a mission to bring success and satisfaction to your lives through facilitating the usage - learning and practicing - of Sanskrit. Here is a special issue of our Newsletter, summarizing the path we have taken. Many of you might have experienced several challenges in pursuing your passion for Sanskrit, including the lack of access to teachers, constraints of time and place, difficulty in getting study materials and resources, etc. We too experienced these challenges, and our journey began when we realised that technology could be an answer to most of these challenges. Thus was born “Vyoma Linguistic Labs Foundation”, a non-profit organization determined to create Sanskrit consciousness in every individual. We at Vyoma Labs strongly believe that Sanskrit has the solution to all the modern-day problems that we are facing such as lack of concentration & memory, depression, lack of morals, feeling empty in spite of having all worldly comforts, etc. We are striving to make this language accessible to all, crossing the barriers of time and space. We have made a significant impact in the lives of many people by helping them to learn Sanskrit and be really happy. With blessings of God, Gurūs, elders and well-wishers, Vyoma Labs has successfully completed 5 years of Saṃskṛta-sevā. Thank you for being a part of our passionate journey in spreading Sanskrit through technology. We request your continued support in meeting our goal of impacting a million people by 2025 through Sanskrit e-learning. | With Pranāms,
Vyoma Labs Team. |  Click here to watch the video | Vyoma's baby-steps were to meet the needs of beginners in Sanskrit - We started with "Saṃskṛtabālāmodinī" - a multimedia CD to delight learners. From there, we have developed an array of products with deep and authentic content for vocabulary-building, grammar, syllabus-based learning, ślokās & even games in Sanskrit. Here is a quick peek into all our offerings : | We now have a storefront on Amazon too. You can browse our products, get exciting discounts, and order them at your convenience. | Another major activity has been the nurturing of Vyoma-Saṃskṛta-Pāṭhaśālā(Sanskrit From Home) - a one-of- its-kind portal for Sanskrit learning, open to all at www.sanskritfromhome.in. From the initial webinars for teaching the Grammar text Siddhānta Kaumudī, starting in 2010, struggling with the various challenges of technology and virtual learning methodologies, we have come a long way to become the largest online repository for structured e-learning in Sanskrit. From a single teacher and a handful of students, within a span of 7 years, we have grown to be a family of 12 teachers and 5000 students, the numbers swelling each day. We now host 50 courses and nearly 1000 hours of learning material in this portal. | We are happy to share with you that Vyoma Labs, in association with Karnataka Sanskrit University, has recently been allotted a project by the prestigious Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan to create e-learning products for children under the scheme of Aṣṭādaśī (18 projects for sustaining the growth of Sanskrit). These products will target the development of various language skills in children. We also have several other plans in the pipeline, including
1. Several new and exciting games at www.sanskritgames.com
2. Rāmāyaṇaratnamālā - Publication of Book along with meaning
3. Summer Packages for kids - 5 hours package, 10 hours package, 15 hours package. You can stay up-to-date with all our activities by subscribing for our bi-annual Newsletter. | In the last six months, we have conducted several events such as the Power of Sanskrit lecture series in Bangalore and Chennai, Audio-visual Quiz for Highschool students, Presented papers in Internationals seminars such as New Research frontiers at Chinmaya University, IEEE Cloud seminar, Saṃskṛtotsavaḥ etc. | I finished your "Learn Sanskirt Level 1" course. It is just so well designed. You guys are true experts in pedagogy. Sri. Sivasubramanian, Journalist, Singapore | Vyoma's webinar classes have made a huge impact on me, because of the teachers' subject expertise, material comprehensiveness and clarity, support and empathy to participants, and high level of interaction. Sri. Nandakumar Menon, Retired Professor, Kerala | Its an excellent way of learning Sanskrit, keeping up with the modern world. Rivetting, engaging and addictive. A great way to learn Sanskrit with ease. Chi. Bharath, Student of NPS, Bangalore | The Vyoma team makes fabulous use of technology to develop easy-to-use e-learning products, apps & games to make learning Samskritam a great fun for young and old alike. For such a team that works relentlessly in service of Samskritam in great collaboration with modern technology, the least that we could do was to provide them a space that they can work out of. Sri. Sivashankar & Smt. Malathi Latha, Founder of HashInclude Computech Pvt Ltd,Bangalore | Sanskrit is not just a wonderful language, but a store house of all branches of knowledge. Vyoma Labs is an organization trying to bring that to people with "easy-to-learn" products. The research that they put into the subject before recording is great. We feel happy and proud to be associated with such an organization. Sri.Pranava Iyengar, Owner of "Pranav Studios", Bangalore. | I hope the new generation arriving in the US will hold on and spread their traditions with the help of organizations like Vyoma Lab. Sri. Kal Krishnan, Founder, KKCS Inc., Oakland, USA | Click here to read more testimonials. | Vyoma Labs offers its heartfelt thanks to all the people who have supported us by donating funds, volunteered for us, guided us, prayed for us and stood by us like a solid rock of support in the past 5 years. | The money you have donated has been used majorly for commencing the building of a Corpus fund to make sure our efforts can be sustained for a long time to come. A small portion of the funds is used for product development and also for operational expenses of the organization. | You can help us by volunteering your time & skills or by financially supporting our activities. Do join hands and strengthen our endeavor to spread the cause of Saṃskṛta - Saṃskṛti - Saṃskāra. | |
