BASTIGIRI SAMAJIK SANSTHAN

Our Team

Madasamy Thirumalai   Professor Madasamy Thirumalai, former Deputy Director of Central Institute of Indian Languages at Mysore, teaches at the World International University, Minnesota, USA. He is the Chief editor of www.languageinindia.com

Karunakaran Krishnamoorthy Professor Krishnamoorthy has served as distinguished visiting professor of Tamil and linguistics in several countries, advised numerous Ph.D. students, and published several books as well as audio CDs for teaching and learning Tamil as a second language. His teaching methodology serves as a benchmark for teaching Tamil as a second language. He has been an active participant in the Michigan Tamil Sangam, whose mission is to “preserve and nurture the Tamil language, culture, and arts in Michigan, in a unique social atmosphere." The Tamil Sangam was largely responsible for advocacy and financial support during the first decade of Tamil instruction at University of Michigan. Dr. Krishnamoorthy is currently working on several projects related to Tamil teaching, dialect dictionary, Tamil poetry translations, and preparation of interactive digital materials for teaching Tamil through the Web. Currently, Professor Karunakaran Krishnamoorthy teaches Tamil Language and Culture in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA.

B N Patnaik Former Professor of Linguistics and English, at Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. Currently, Professor at Central Institute of Indian Languages(CIIL), Mysore, Karnataka, India.

Anvita Abbi Anvita Abbi is a Professor of Linguistics at the Centre of Linguistics and English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is a zealous field linguist who has worked extensively on Indigenous and tribal languages of India. Professor Abbi served as a Visiting Scientist in 2000 and 2003 at the Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany and was nominated as a Distinguished Scholar in 2001 by the Language Typology Research Center, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She has recently been nominated an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America. At present Prof.. Abbi is one of the members of the Board of Directors of Terralingua, and advisor to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on language issues. She received the Rarashtriya Lokbhasha Samman in 2003 for her contribution towards the tribal languages of India. Prof. Abbi is also the author of nine books and approximately 50 articles in various research journals.

	Sam Mohanlal Professor Sam teaches at Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Jayalakshmipuram, Hunsur Road, Manasagongothri, Mysore,  Karnataka, India    570 006
	Srinivasacharya Kandala   Dr. Srinivasacharya Kandala teaches Telegu Language and Culture in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA.

Lakhan Gusain Lakhan Gusain is a scholar and he is a well-trained linguist from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has been conducting extensive research on many languages of South Asia for around two decades. Currently, he is a professor at SAIS of the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. His work is on the following languages: Balochi, Dari, Gujarati, Haryanavi, Hindi, Pashto, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Seraiki, Sindhi, Urdu

Shalinee Gusain   Shalinee has been conducting research for the last fifteen years on different spectra of the issues related with women and gender in South Asia. She has also worked as a research assistant in many prominent organizations in India. Some of them are: Deccan Development society at Hyderabad, National Literacy Mission at New Delhi, Indian Institute of Public Administration at New Delhi, and Indian Adult Education Association at New Delhi. She has also been an active member of Center for Education for Women, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA. Currently, she is affiliated with DCPS, Washington, D.C.