Fwd: Happy Holiday!

[Elliot M. Stern]

I apologize for mistakenly posting this reply to the Indology list.

Elliot

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> From: "Elliot M. Stern" <emstern at VERIZON.NET>
> Date: 24 December  2007 9:50:28 AM EST
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Happy Holiday!
> Reply-To: Indology <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
>
> Tim,
>
> Best to you and Minoo as well. I think you mistakenly posted this  
> message to Indology.
>
> Elliot
>
> On 24 Dec  2007, at 9:02 AM, tccahill wrote:
>
>> Dear Rosane,
>>
>>  Sorry that I haven't been able to catch you on the phone.
>> I tried a few times this week and once about a month back
>> but without success. Also sorry to hear the news about
>> Walter Maurer. After talking to you and Ludo last time I
>> realized he probably wouldn't be with us much longer.  Is
>> Geraldine now in an institution somewhere?  I really can't
>> imagine her on her own.
>>
>>  Minoo and I are well settled here in Pondicherry. This is
>> a great place to get work done and fairly comfortable to
>> live, also.  I have enjoyed meeting Dominic Goodall
>> --recently finished going through his Raghuvamsa edition.
>> That a very fine piece of scholarship and I'm glad to see
>> that he and Harunaga will be getting the second volume out
>> soon.  I've also struck up a relationship with Anjaneya
>> Sarma, a vaiyakarana from Andhra Pradesh. We have several
>> common acquantainces from Vizag, Rajahmundry and Vijaywada.
>> We're planning to read some Alamkarasastra texts soon,
>> together with some grammar, I'm sure!  Francois Grimal is
>> another grammar scholar affiliated with the institute. I
>> wasn't aware of his work on Bhavabhuti, nor aware that he is
>> now working on the Kavyadarpana --a 17th century alamkara
>> text. We plan to compare notes on our Jagannatha and
>> Rajacudamani diksita some time soon.
>>
>>  We will be touring Delhi, Agra and Jaipur with Minoo's
>> sister Maryam from the 28th to Jan. 2. (A real whirlwind
>> tour!) I'll bring a book or two, but I'm not optimistic
>> about getting much work done. One good thing is that I've
>> already updated my Alamakarasastra bibliography, and revised
>> the introduction and notes to the RG. So it's been a
>> productive time so far.  Minoo leaves for Iran in mid-Jan.
>> and I'll be heading out of India (somewhere) shortly after
>> that. (I have to leave and return to avoid visa
>> complications.)
>>
>>  I imagine that the two of you are socked away in the
>> Poconos looking at snow. Wish I could have talked to you on
>> the phone --*before* the recent Eagles-Saints game, of
>> course!
>>
>>  Minoo and I send our very best to you for the New Year!
>> Perhaps we will be able to fit in a trip to Philadelphia on
>> our way back down to New Orleans this summer.
>>
>> With warmest thoughts,
>> Tim
>
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Elliot M. Stern
552 South 48th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029
United States of America
telephone: 215-747-6204
mobile: 267-240-8418
emstern at verizon.net