00956nam a22001457a 4500 518928 518928 211227b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Karunakaran, Kalpana 31591 An unlikely friendship links the Volga and the Vaigai The Caravan July, 2021: p.8-10 On 19 November 2020, the Indian embassy in Russia announced that Alexander Dubiansky, a professor of Tamil studies at Moscow State University, had died of COVID-19 at the age of 79. Dubiansky was a reputed scholar of the Tamil language and its literature, and the news of his death led to an outpouring of grief through social-media posts by writers, scholars and leaders across the political spectrum in Tamil Nadu. He was remembered as “an adopted son of Mother Tamil,” whose devotion to the language had “linked the Volga and the Vaigai rivers.” – Reproduced The Caravan LANGUAGES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 392983 IIPA IIPA 2021-12-27 July, 2021: p.8-10 AR125972 2021-12-27 AR