Memorial trip to India for Kamil Zvelebil

is not to be - at least for my mother. Her passport expires 2 weeks before a 6 months limit to obtain an Indian Visa.

We have the tickets, we have the hotel. The whole journey had been arranged. And then at the last minute the Indian Consulate send her passport back saying that they will not issue a visa because it would be 2 weeks short of 6 months on the date of her return. We were going only for one week! To see the country my father spend so much time studying the languages of, writing them down, deciphering the ancient texts, bringing their knowledge and beauty to the world. We were going on the 18th of January - a day to the year of his death. Now I have to go alone.

This is such a sad postscript to his devotion to the Dravidian culture...