Who first translated the holy bible in Tamil?

An ambitious translation of the Bible into Konkani has recently been completed by a former Goa University professor, who says this has been the work he is most satisfied with till date.

Dr William R. da Silva is currently in Bremen-Germany, but teaches at the University of Osnabrueck, some 120 kilometres away. His future plans include possibly returning to India or Arabia for further research and publishing.

"Publishing here is easy but costly," says he, of Germany. He recently translated and published the Bible in Konkani, using the Kannada script, which is widely used among Konkani speakers of Karnataka. "The work lasted a good thirty years of freetime away from teaching and research and, boasting apart,that is my best work from many points of view," says he.