If only some expert linguist in India today could explain in similar simple yet so clear terms as the professor does in the video-clip above about how Tamil and Sanskrit languages also originated and developed over the millennia …. I believe there perhaps would be much greater and more sensible understanding that both are really etymological cocktails that got brewed at glacial speed across the expanse of Time …
If there was such clarity and sobriety of understanding, then I suppose there would really arise no need for narrative-war over North India/ South India or Dravidian/Aryan divide. The raging ongoing competitive political debate today over which language is more ancient, more pristine, more prodigious in vocabulary or …. and yes, of course … more dear to people in spite of being more “dead” would be irrelevant and unnecessary.
Sudarshan Madabushi