It's interesting that a Sanskrit breakthrough happens not in India, but in England, a Western nation, by a PhD candidate researching under a European scholar.

Can someone explain to me why the breakthrough didn't happen in India?

What I think is that as the language is closely related to the religion, Indian people tend to worship it and hence cannot produce critical and innovative research nowadays. Am I right in thinking this? Or am I making an epistemological oversimplification?

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> Mr Rajpopat said he had "a eureka moment in Cambridge" after spending nine months "getting nowhere".

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> "I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the summer - swimming, cycling, cooking, praying and meditating," he said.

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> "Then, begrudgingly I went back to work, and, within minutes, as I turned the pages, these patterns starting emerging, and it all started to make sense."

Diffuse thinking at play.

Happened with me many times.