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International Conference on 'Demetrios Galanos and His Legacy' was inaugurated at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in New Delhi. Demetrios Galanos was a Greek scholar who came to India to study in the nineteenth century. He stayed in India for 47 years (for 40 years he lived in the city of Varanas. During the course of his stay, Demetrios Galanos compiled a Sanskrit-English-Greek lexicon of about 9000 words. He also translated the Bhagvad Gita into Greek. IGNCA's 'Bharat Vidya Prayojana' project, under which, attempts are being made to reconceive Indology from Bharat perspective is the principle host of this conference.