UoH faculty elected president of the LSI
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Garapati Umamaheswara Rao of the University of Hyderabad has been elected president of the Linguistic Society of India (LSI).
He is the first one from the Telugu states to have been elected for the post. Prof. Rao, who worked as Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of Hyderabad, has over 35 years of experience. He was also a former president of the Dravidian Linguists Association and member of the General Council, Kendra Sahitya Academy. Founded about a hundred years ago, it remains a major contributor to the development of the languages of 130 crore Indians.