Many people are coming up with the `let us write everything in Devanagari' trick. This is the first step to destruction of non-Hindi languages, as the native script is the link to the heritage. Poor KPs are facing the heat today as they cannot reinstitute their script at all.
Let us turn it round. Let us write Sanskrit also [those of us who wish to read and write Sanskrit, that is] in our local script. The reason why this should be done is the tendency of Hindi supremacists to destroy every other language, claiming that they are all Hindi dialects.
The reason why we should write Sanskrit in our own scripts, apart from comfort for ourselves, is normative inversion, which is a powerful trick against misappropriation. Every state has contributed to Sanskrit, and it is important to safeguard these contributions.
Finally, there is the false notion that `Devanagari is the natural script of Sanskrit'. Nothing could be farther than the truth. Sanskrit was written in Sharada script in Kashmir, Kannada script in Karnataka, Bangla script in Bengal, Telugu script in AP and Telangana, etc.
We should focus on reclaiming our heritage fully by focussing our energies on the local script and language. Sanskrit is the heritage of every state in India [and even Tibet, Java, Bali, Cambodia, etc], and those who wish to learn Sanskrit are best equipped in local scripts.
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