Tamil scholar from France awarded

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Mar 3, 2013

Photograph New Indian Express

Professor Francois Gros, an eighty-year-old Tamil scholar from France was awarded the Indian President's Kural Peedam award for the year 2008-2009 in recognition of his services to Classical Tamil studies.

At an event in the French institute at Puducherry on Friday, Professor Gros was presented with the award by Gnanamoorthy, the director-in-charge of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai.

Prof Gros who was a researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry was presented the award in absentia on 21st December 2012 by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi, as he was unable to attend due to health reasons.

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