V N Datta: ​A Student's Reminiscence | Economic and Political Weekly
V N Datta, Professor Emeritus of History, Kurukshetra University, breathed his last on 30 November 2020. He was 94. His long life was what, by any standards, would be judged as happy, fulfilling, and very productive; except for his very last years when an unsuccessful hip surgery kept him increasingly confined to the bed and in permanent pain which could any time become excruciating. The person who, unaffected by advancing years and an unfortunate limp, would—exemplifying the life of the mind—everyday be the first reader to enter Delhi’s India International Library, was thus cru...
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