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Monday, February 12, 2018

Recalling the GREEK who espoused India

Two hundred years ago, there lived a GREEK 'Pundit' by the name Demetrios Galanos (1760-1833) in Varanasi. Son of a wealthy family from Athens, and trained in priesthood in the seminary at Patmos, he ended up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as tutor to children of GREEK merchants in the city. But within a ...


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