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100			_aKarunakaran, Kalpana _931591
245			_a An unlikely friendship links the Volga and the Vaigai
260			_aThe Caravan
300			_aJuly, 2021: p.8-10
520			_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
773			_aThe Caravan
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