User talk:Professor P S Subramanyam

1. Professor Prakya Sreesaila Subrahmanyam (henceforth PSS), (1939-2016) the distinguished linguist of the nation known to the field as PSS passed away on 17th of March 2016 at Hyderabad. He was at the age of 77. His scholarship is an exceptional combination of linguistic understanding of Dravidian languages and Sanskrit grammatical tradition. He has substantially advanced the comparative studies of Dravidian languages; unparallel efforts had been made by him to make Sanskrit grammatical tradition accessible in modern terms and introduced modern linguistics in Telugu language. Consequently, he will remains to us as a distinguished comparative Dravidian linguist, a Prometheus of Sanskrit grammatical tradition to common man and a teacher of many generations of students across the world. More than a half century of his substantial contribution to the advancement of comparative study of Dravidian languages since 1960s transformed his biography synonymous with the history of comparative Dravidian Linguistics. For a half century in the history of linguistics in India no years have passed without at least one publication by him. No advancement can be made in the comparative study of Dravidian languages without cite, follow, revise or challenge him. A general search in the Google scholar shows that PSS belongs to the top cited three scholars in Dravidian linguistics.