About Weer Rajendra Rishi
Lived 1917 – 2002 (aged 84–85). Weer Rajendra Rishi was an Indian linguist, interpreter and diplomat.
Weer Rajendra Rishi (4 January 1917– 1 December 2002 ) was an Indian linguist, diplomatic translator, and Romani studies scholar.
Rishi was born Waliati Ram Rishi in Makarampur, Punjab on 23 September 1917.
Rishi then served as the director of the Indian Institute of Romani Studies at Chandigarh and the editor of Roma - Half-Yearly Journal on the Life, Language and Culture of Roma. He was later named Honorary President of the International Romani Union.
He died in Chandigarh on December 1, 2002, aged 85. He also received a National Millennium Award at the Millennium World Hindi Conference in 2000.
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