Since nobody has commented so far, I send the sad news that my old friend Noboru Karashima, the great specialist of Tamil Nadu and South Indian history, has passed away in late November.
Another great Indologist has left us…
Michael WItzel
============Michael Witzel
witzel@fas.harvard.edu
<www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm>
Wales Prof. of Sanskrit,
Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
1 Bow Street,
Cambridge MA 02138, USA
phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, fax 617 - 496 8571;
direct line: 617- 496 2990