Suniti Kumar Chatterji, a magnificent luminary with profound erudition, logical perception, humanistic attitude and aesthetic sense, was one of the world’s foremost linguists and a ‘culture scientist’. Reckoned as the doyen of Indian linguistics, his oeuvre spanned book-length publications, essays and lectures on diverse topics, profiles of distant nations, travelogues and sketches. His versatile knowledge and his holistic approach to language and linguistics made him a true ambassador of Indian scholarship and culture.