Congratulations Madhav! Well deserved. (And don't spend it all in one place....)

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On Monday, November 17th, 2025 at 3:23 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Happy to share the news with you:

I was informed this morning that the Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya, Ramtek, Nagpur, India, has selected me for the 2025 Mahakavi Kalidas Samskritavrati Rashtriya Puraskar [National Award of Rs. 100, 000 for dedication to Sanskrit scholarship]. The news made my day.!!!😀😀😀😀

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]