Dear All, The following newsclip from DNA India dt. 20-May-07 may be of interest to you all ----------- Search engine Google to digitise 800,000 books at Mysore varsity IANS Sunday, May 20, 2007 15:16 IST NEW DELHI: At least 800,000 books and manuscripts, including India's first political treatise the 'Arthasastra' written in the 4th century BC by Kautilya, that are lying in Mysore University in Karnataka, will be digitised by Google, the world's leading Internet search engine. "Written in both papers and palm leaves, there are around 100,000 manuscripts in our library, some dating back to the eighth century. The effort is to restore and preserve this cultural heritage for effective dissemination of knowledge," said J. Shashidhara Prasad, vice chancellor of the university. Full-Text ---> http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1097995 Regards, M Nandeesha Tata Consultancy Services L Centre, EPIP, Whitefield Bangalore - 560066 Mailto: m.nandeesha@tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.