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Somanatha Lecture Eng I Lish
Somanatha Lecture Eng I Lish
Somanatha Lecture Eng I Lish
Romila Thapar
I would like to express my gratitude to the Gangotri Trust for this invitation to give
the Memorial Lecture in memory of Umashankar Joshi. I regard this as an immense
privilege. I first visited Ahmedabad when Umashankarbhai was the Vice-Chancellor
of the Gujarat University. I remember with pleasure my conversations with him and
the sense I had of talking with a poet of great intellectual sensitivity, and a person
with a considerable regard for humanity : in short, a rare human being.