This year, the emphasis is on how to bring students of Sanskrit closer to the subject by stressing on its importance. In store for Sanskrit lovers are lectures by renowned writers and scholars of Sanskrit.

Commenting on the need for such a festival, he says that it is often thought that Sanskrit is the language of the select few. "That, however, is not the case-- it is as much a common's man's language as any other."

In his lecture, GC Tripathi spoke about the `Concept of Vak in Vedic Literature'. B Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor of JNU, praised the concept and said that the language should reach the common man.