Why knowing Sanskrit is cool? Because through it you discover, apart from many other things, that what we have been attributing to Pythagoras all along existed in Bodhayana’s Sulba Sutras centuries before Pythagoras. दीर्घचतुरस्रस्याक्ष्णया रज्जुः पार्श्वमानी तिर्यग् मानी च यत् पृथग् भूते कुरूतस्तदुभयं करोति ॥ Sulba Sutra (appendix to the Vedas), Chapter 1, Shloka 12, Bodhayana Translation: the area (of the squares) produced separately by the length and breadth of a rectangle together equal the area (of the square) produced by the diagonal A child who grows up believing every great idea came from somewhere else learns to imitate. But a nation that knows it has created before finds the confidence to create again! And confidence is the birthplace of innovation and entrepreneurship! And that is cool!!