New Delhi, July 27 -- Director of the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Robert Gafrik, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's praise gave his five-year Slovak translation of the Upanishads a "second life," turning it into a cultural bridge in India-Slovakia relations.

In an interview with ANI, Dr Robert Gafrik revealed how Prime Minister Narendra Modi's acknowledgement during his historic state visit to Slovakia transformed his five-year literary undertaking into a cornerstone of India-Slovakia cultural diplomacy.

"The Upanishads are very difficult texts. They have a very rich and long history of interpretation in India and also in the West. They have been interpreted for the past 200 years. So ...