In this first episode we speak with McComas Taylor. Hailing from the Australian National University in Canberra, McComas is a pioneer of online Sanskrit teaching and ardent supporter of open-access publishing. He talks to Antonia about how he vowed under a full moon to learn Sanskrit, about his reading the Mahābhārata every day, about the secrets behind his hugely popular online courses, and his brand-new, freely available translation of the Viṣṇupurāṇa.

Links to books and pages mentioned

• McComas Taylor at the ANU
• The Fall of the Indigo Jackal 
• The Little Red Book (online version | pdf download)
• The Joy of Sanskrit
• The Vishnupurana