Dear Colleagues,

Students and well-wishers of Professor Ram Karan Sharma approached the IASS during the Vancouver WSC in July 2018 to set up this award under the auspices of the IASS (International Association of Sanskrit Studies).

Professor Sharma sadly passed away in the meantime on 18 December 2018. He was the President of the IASS from 1994–2006 and one of the Vice Presidents of the IASS from 2006 till his passing away on 18 December 2018.

The award in his honour was welcomed by all the members of the Board, Regional Directors and Consultative Committee of the IASS.

Details were announced in the IASS website in August 2018 for the award, to be coupled with each World Sanskrit Conference. Since the WSC in Canberra had to be postponed because of the troubled Covid time, it is being announced again.

One of the he conditions for the award includes:

"In the five years previous to the next WSC applicants 1) shall have received a PhD and 2) shall have published journal articles and/or published a book in the area(s) mentioned above. Theses and publications in English only are eligible for consideration."

Please see all the details here:

http://www.sanskritassociation.org/images/pdf/Professor-Ram-Karan-Sharma-Award.pdf

The next WSC conference is to take place online from 9-13 January 2023. See the details here: www.wsc2021.com.au

The deadline for the award valued at 1000 USD is the End of September 2022 and the winner to be announced soon after the Canberra WSC in January 2023.

Please Note:

Applications for the RK Sharma Award should be sent to Professor Deven Patel:

deven.m.patel@gmail.com.

With thanks for your attention,

Jay Soni

Secretary General of the IASS