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A two-day workshop on Epigraphy was conducted by the Department of History on 22nd and 23rd January 2019. Dr. V. Vedachalam, Epigraphist, Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology, trained the students to read and write the ancient scripts Brahmi, Grantham and Vatelluthu. The workshop enabled students to read the 2000 year old Tamil inscriptions. The students were also trained in the art of making estampages, a process of 'lifting' the inscriptions from the stone on to a piece of paper for a clearer read.