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THE TIMES OF INDIA: University of Calcutta to confer a posthumous doctorate on Lithuanian traveller anthropologist Antanas Poska

Updated 2014-10-29

In a rare honour, the University of Calcutta has decided to confer a posthumous doctorate on one of the world's greatest explorers - Lithuanian traveller anthropologist AntanasPoska. In an exclusive interview to TOI, Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkevicius said that Poska - the man who undertook an incredible journey to India on a motor bike all the way from Vilnius in 1929 will be conferred the doctorate during the University's next convocation ceremony around September. Confirming this to TOI from Kolkata, the University vice chancellor Suranjan Das said Poska "symbolised an eastern European's inquisitiveness about India" and was being conferred the doctorate "for his contribution in making India known to the outside world through his extensive writings".

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Source: The Times of India

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