Pramod Kumar Sudhakar Pandey, with research degrees in English and Linguistics, was awarded with Third World Linguists Award (The Hague), Nuffield Foundation Travelling Fellowship (York, England), 1987 Linguistic Institute Fellowship (Stanford University) and Rockefellar Foundation Residency Fellowship (Bellagio, Italy). His research interests are: Phonetics — Phonology — Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Writing Systems and Applied Linguistics.