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I'm trying to bridge language divide, including Goa: Ganesh Devi
INDIAN EXPRESS, VADODRA | 02 February 2016 14:07 ISTPadma Shri Dr Ganesh Devy, literary critic, activist and one of the writers who returned their Sahitya Akademi Awards, is leaving Vadodara, his home of 36 years, to Dharwad in Karnataka.
Devy, founder and former director of the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre and the Adivasi Academy in Tejgadh, Gujarat, had spearheaded a first-of-its-kind study of tribal communities and led the research of 800 Indian languages through People’s Linguistic Survey of India in 2010. CLICK TO READ MORE