About Prof. Deokar

Dear Jim,

Sorry for coming to notice your message of January only now.

--- you wrote:
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> Thank-you for letting us know about this new and interesting book. I wonder if the author is the same Prof. Deokar that Bhikkhu Pandita met at the University of Pune more than a year ago. He is head of the Pali deparment there and also blind which is rather unusual.

Yes, the same person. I met him in February this year when I visited Pune to attend a conference, but somehow this new book did not come into our conversation. So I come to know about his new book only now from the messages of Mr. Bedell and yourself.

with metta,

Ven. Pandita