Dear Colleagues,

Sad news have just arrived from the EFEO centre at Pondicherry: the pandit R. Varada Desikan passed away on May 2 at the age of 94.

http://www.efeo.fr/agenda/agenda.php?nid=316

He was indeed a very knowledgeable scholar and a very kind person.

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Emmanuel Francis
Chargé de recherche CNRS, Centre d'étude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
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Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950, Universität Hamburg)
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