In a rare gesture, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday presented Padma Shri to eminent Japanese
Tamil language scholar Noboru Karashima for his outstanding contribution in the
field of literature and education.
The 80-year-old Mr.
Karashima could not be present for the Padma awards ceremony in New Delhi on
April 5, 2013 due to health reasons. The awards were given by President Pranab
Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Mr. Karashima, presently
Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, had spent several years in India
as a research scholar on South
Indian history and
epigraphy at the University of Madras.
Besides amazing people with
the ease with which he speaks Tamil, Mr. Karashima is also an acknowledged
authority on medieval South Indian inscriptions.
The citation read that Mr.
Karashima joined the University of Tokyo faculty in 1964 and occupied the
prestigious Chair of South Asian History at the university in 1974, which he
held for 20 years.
The scholar received a
standing ovation as he received the award from the Prime Minister.
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