01066nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003200060245006100092260001800153300002300171520057700194773001800771906001400789942000700803952009800810  c518928d518928211227b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aKarunakaran, Kalpana931591  a An unlikely friendship links the Volga and the Vaigai    aThe Caravan    aJuly, 2021: p.8-10  aOn 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   aThe Caravan    aLANGUAGES  cAR  00102ddc40709392983aIIPAbIIPAd2021-12-27hJuly, 2021: p.8-10pAR125972r2021-12-27yAR