Sanskrit was a pan-Indian language in the Vedic and classical period but lost its place to its derivative regional dialects in modern India.

As its founder says, "Sanskrit is the best tool to remove the five types of social differences; linguistic, class, caste, sect and the north vs south division.

[6][7][8] Samskrita Bharati is primarily a volunteer-driven organisation, with volunteers from all walks of life spending time educating people to speak Sanskrit.

Their most popular offering is the 10-day capsule of two-hour classes designed to impart simple Sanskrit conversational skills.

[2] Besides this, the organisation conducts the following programmes: Even as he acknowledges that "end of the ten days, the participants have a reasonable command of many basic features of (simple) Sanskrit and can formulate a wide variety of expressions.

This "Speak Samskritam" Movement took off in 1981 from Bangalore city, and later "Samskrita Bharati"—a national level organisation—was established in New Delhi in 1995.