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Russian scholar gets Padma Bhushan

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Russia's eminent scholar of India was presented with the Padma Bhushan at a ceremony in the Indian Embassy in Moscow.

Presenting the 2006 Padma Bhushan to Academician Grigory Bongard-Levin, Indian Ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal said the Russian scholar eminently deserved the award for his contribution to the studies of ancient Indian and Sanskrit texts.

Academician Mr. Bongard-Levin, 72, is Russia's most renowned Indologist and a member of a dozen foreign academies. He has authored more than 20 books and hundreds of papers on the history and ancient culture of India and Central Asia.

"I receive this award as a tribute to the Russian school of Indology," Academician Mr. Bongard-Levin said accepting the Padma Bhushan at the ceremony attended by prominent Russian Indologists, reactors and professors of prestigious Russian universities.

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