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Rao Bahadur Sir A T Panneerselvam<br />
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Minister of Home of Madras Presidency Rao Bahadur Sir A. T. Pannirselvam (1 June 1888 - 1 March 1940) was an Indian attorney, landlord, politician and leader of the Justice Party.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Panneerselvam was the leader of the Tanjore Municipal Corporation during 1918-20 and a member of the Tanjore District board during 1924-30.He was an alumnus of Cambridge University and the first Indian Christian to be appointed as adviser to the Lord Zetland, Secretary of State for India.He attended the 1930 Round Table Conference on India as a nominee of the Viceroy to represent Indian Christians.</div>
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In 1937, Panneerselvam succeeded Mohammad Usman as the Minister for Home of the Madras Presidency, in the Raja of Bobbili cabinet. In 1936 he became the member for Home in the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras - Lord Erskine. He also served as the Minister for Home and Finance, in the short lived interim provincial government of Kurma Venkata Reddy Naidu during 1 April - 14 July 1937. After the defeat of the Justice party in the 1937 Assembly elections, Panneerselvam became the leader of the Justice party. He was one of the few Justice leaders to win in the 1937 elections, defeating George Joseph of the Indian National Congress from the Tanjore Constituency. The party under his leadership supported the Anti-Hindi agitations of 1937-40. He remained the leader of the party till 1938, when Periyar E. V. Ramasamy took over the leadership of the party in December 1938.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Panneerselvam died in a plane crash on 1 March 1940. He was traveling to London to join the Secretary of State's Indian Council, when the Imperial Airways flight he was flying in, HP42 "Hannibal", crashed in the Gulf of Oman killing everyone aboard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Legacy<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1991, the Tamil Nadu Government named the newly created Tiruvarur district as "Panneerselvam Tiruvarur" district in his honour.(However, it reverted to its old name in 1997, when all names of persons were dropped from the names of districts and transport corporations).On 31 December 2008, the Government of India issued a stamp (valued at Rs.5) in his honour.<br />
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A. T. Pannirselvam

Rao Bahadur Sir A T Panneerselvam Sir A T Panneerselvam Minister of Home of Madras Presidency Rao Bahadur Sir A. T. Pannirselvam (1...

NPV Ramasamy Udayar

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Shri NPV Ramasamy Udayar was born on September 19, 1936, in a small town in the current Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu called Rasipuram. His meteoric rise as an industrialist was propelled by an astute business sense but even more important an untiring spirit and hard work. In the early eighties Mr. Udayar was a highly successful industrialist, respected by his colleagues, and admired even by his competitors. He himself felt that there was an unfulfilled aspiration in his heart; a desire to create something that will be a lasting benefit to the community; this desire kept burning like a fire in his heart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The dream took a form and fruition with the help of the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - Bharat Ratna Dr. M.G. Ramachandran. Out of this partnership grew the plans for the first privately owned medical college in Tamil Nadu.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On September 11th 1985, Sri Ramachandra Medical College was started in a two storey building in Vembuliamman street in Valasaravakkam. The first outpatient clinic in a make shift shed. The next few years saw the true grit of the man- his blood sweat and toil saw the creation of a world class campus out of a 150 acres of farmland near the Porur lake.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1994 was a landmark year for SRMC. The college became a deemed to be university - a world class tertiary care medical centre took root. Seeds for specialties were sown. In this substrate of hard work grew institutions committed to advancing the best in the health care sciences - in dentistry and nursing and physiotherapy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was not just growth but growth with innovation as epitomized by the allied health science program and growth with vision as epitomized by the programs in genetics and biotechnology and informatics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through out its short history SRMC has made its own road, creating unique ground breaking programs in the health care sciences. But this is only of the dimensions of this organisation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SRMC went to the best medical school in the world to acquire its partner in excellence. In July 1997, Shri N.P.V. Ramasamy Udayar shook hands with Robert Crone CEO of Harvard Medical International, sealing a partnership that had grown in strength over time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Starting with student exchange the alliance has spearheaded curriculum reform, focused on health care quality and safety and leadership and faculty development.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A journey is measured by the friends we make - SRMC has made many friends and partners around the world during its journey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The torch was passed in 1998. The journey did not end - it continued through steps some times and leaps at others. SRMC is now one of the largest private health care infrastructures in India. Today, SRMC has over 1000 faculties and three thousand students; it touches the lives of over 5000 patients each day; through its telemedicine network it reaches over 10 centres in the country; through its international wing SRHI, its reaching out to the global village; it is in the forefront of cutting edge technology - with a wireless campus, computer assisted learning, and keyhole surgery.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SRMC looks to the future today - with inspiration from its past; and the strength of its present guided by the vision and blessing of its founder and driven by a passion for excellence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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NPV Ramasamy Udayar

Shri NPV Ramasamy Udayar was born on September 19, 1936, in a small town in the current Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu called Rasipur...

G. K. Vasan,Union Minister of Shipping, Government of India

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<div class="MsoNormal">G. K. Vasan, (born December 28, 1964) is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) based in Tamil Nadu, India.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">He was educated at Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School and was later awarded a degree. He is the son of a veteran Congress leader, G. K. Moopanar, who later formed his own political party, the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC). The TMC elected Vasan as its leader upon the death of his father. After leading the party for some time, he merged the TMC with the INC, whose president, Sonia Gandhi, named him as a secretary of the party.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Vasan is the Union Minister of Shipping.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQjSz3y8FEqpTjb-YxwfdQ0aYKgiRUj_81BZsYJZdOZh-vUo6a6reqsmpv77ls3frsTZ-Ag5QKpG3UMtlsG5SAfyND8XjlRY2ghE4yDvoNo0YZHVEs0clivpmF5T8ltn5EjWM7ppjOuvk/s1600/GKVasan_copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQjSz3y8FEqpTjb-YxwfdQ0aYKgiRUj_81BZsYJZdOZh-vUo6a6reqsmpv77ls3frsTZ-Ag5QKpG3UMtlsG5SAfyND8XjlRY2ghE4yDvoNo0YZHVEs0clivpmF5T8ltn5EjWM7ppjOuvk/s320/GKVasan_copy.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Vasan has held the following positions:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">May 2009 onwards : Union Minister of Shipping, Government of India<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">March 2009 - May 2009: Union Minister of State for Labour & Employment (Independent Charge) (Additional Charge)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">April 2008 : Re-elected to the Rajya Sabha<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Jan 2006 -May 2009 : Union Minister of State for Statistics & Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Oct 2004 - Jan 2006 : Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Urban Development<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Aug 2004 - Jan 2006 : Member, Committee on Coal and Steel<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Nov 2003 - Feb 2006 : President, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">June 2003 - July 2004 : Member, Committee on Subordinate Legislation<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Aug 2002 - Nov 2003 : Secretary, All India Congress Committee (A.I.C.C.)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Jan 2003 - Feb 2004 : Member, Committee on Urban and Rural Development<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">June 2002 - July 2004 : Member, Departmentally-Related Standing Committee on Urban and Rural Development<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">May 2002 - Jan 2004 : Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Agriculture<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">April 2002 : Elected to Rajya Sabha<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Aug 2001 - Aug 2002 : President, Tamil Maanila Congress</div></div>

G. K. Vasan,Union Minister of Shipping, Government of India

G. K. Vasan, (born December 28, 1964) is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) based in Tamil Nadu, India. He was educated at Madr...

Dr. Murugesan Ponnavaikko,VC,SRM University

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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Dr. Murugesan Ponnavaikko was born in 1946 at Sengamedu village, South Arcot district, Tamil Nadu. He graduated in electrical engineering from Guindy Engineering College in 1969 and obtained his M.Sc.(Engg.) in power systems from the same institution in 1972. He received his Ph.D. degree in optimal distribution system planning from I.I.T (Delhi) in 1983. He was a pioneer in promotion of energy conservation techniques using his models for improving the distribution systems of the State Electricity Boards through Rural Electrification Corporation, New Delhi and his models are known as “Ko Models”. His contributions to the Tamil Virtual University as its founder Director, and to the Committee on ‘National Initiatives on Engineering Experimentation’, constituted by the AICTE, as an expert member, are laudable. As the vice chancellor at Bharathidasan University he introduced skill based academic curriculum, making the graduates employable and a number of empowerment programs for the community, including differently abled persons. Among other awards, he was conferred the Knights of Sovereign order of Princes and Knights of Antarcticland” of the Sovereign Order of Knights of Antarcticland and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association of Educators for World Peace, Hunstsville, Alabama, USA</span><br />
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Dr. Murugesan Ponnavaikko,VC,SRM University

Dr. Murugesan Ponnavaikko Vice Chancellor, SRM University Dr. Murugesan Ponnavaikko was born in 1946 at Sengamedu village, South Arcot dis...

Kadai ezhu vallal Paari Venthar

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Malaiyamān Thirumudi Kāri was one of the kings of the Tamil royal house clan Velir of the Malaiyamān dynasty. He is one of Kadai ezhu vallal, literally the last of the seven great(lines) patrons of art and literature. The Malaiyamān chiefs ruled over the Tirukoyilur area also known as Kovalur. It was a strategically important region located on southern the banks of the Pennar river and en route from west coast to the east coast via Arikamedu in ancient Tamilakkam. They traced their lineage to the ancient Chedi Kingdom mentioned in the Kurukshetra warThirumudi Kari rose to become a powerful emperor in Tamilakkam before he was killed by the early Chola king Killivalavan.<br />
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Defeat against Athiyaman<br />
In 118 CE, he waged war on Thagadoor against the famous Athiyamān Nedumān Añci. It was an attempt fuelled by his longtime desire to become an emperor equivalent in power to the Cholas. After a fierce battle, Kāri would lose Kovalur to Athiyamān and would only regain it much later after Peruncheral Irumporai sacks Tagadur.<br />
Victory against Ōri<br />
In 120 CE, the Chera king Paalai paadiya Perum Cheral Irumporrai sought his strategic help in the conquest of Kollimalai. Kaari agreed to conquer Kollimalai for the Chera and it was agreed that the Chera should on his behalf invade Thagadoor in order to avenge his earlier defeat. This strange pact was due to the strategically important easy access points favouring the Chera and Kaari in the case of Thagadoor and Kollimalai respectively. Kāri defeated and killed Ōri, another Vēlir king and took Kolli Hills[7]. In turn the Chera undertook the march of Thagadoor, which is memorialized in the Thagadoor Yaaththirai of Sangam literature.<br />
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Thus with the help of the Chera, Kaari was climbing on the ladder to become an emperor. He began to overshadow the Chola King Killi Valavan. This prompted the Chola king to check Kaari's growth with an invasion on Thirukkoiloor. The battles were fierce, but Kaari was determined to win or die. As a result the Cholas lost 10,000 soldiers in the first five days of the war. But on the sixth day the Malaiyamaan princes, Kaari's three-year-old twin sons, were caught by the intruding Chola spies, giving the Cholas an edge. Killi Valavan began dictating terms and Kaari was forced to venture into the enemy campsite, where he was caught and killed immediately.<br />
The Chola king planned to crush the two princes by walking an elephant over them, but by the timely intervention of poet Kōvūr Kizhār, he changed his mind.<br />
excerpt from Purananuru song 46 by Kōvūr Kizhār:<br />
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You were born into the line of him who relieved the pain of a dove..<br />
..They are children, still wearing their hair unoiled,<br />
and when they see the elephant they forget their tears.<br />
Then confused, they look around the field and feel terror, they never imagined.<br />
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The boys were raised with the patronage of the emperor and served as generals of the Chola army under Killi and his son Rasasuyam Vaetta Peru Nal Killi. After the death of Vēl Pāri, another Vēlir king, poet Kapilar takes the daughters of the former and leaves them in the care of Brahmins. Later poetess Auvaiyar takes them and marries them to Deiveegan of the Malaiyaman family.<br />
Kadai ezhu vallal<br />
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Malayamaan Thirumudi Kaari is considered one of the seven greatest "bestowers" of the last Sangam era - the Kadai Ezhu Vallalgal . The people of his time considered him the most modest of kings. Nobody left empty-handed after paying a visit to him and the visitor who came on barefoot would usually return mounted on a horse or an elephant of his choice. He called himself not a king but a "rightful servant of his beloved people".<br />
excerpt from Purananuru, song 123 by Kapilar:<br />
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Anyone, if he drinks toddy in the morning<br />
and gets happily drunk by the time he holds court,<br />
can give away chariots.<br />
But Malaiyan whose good fame never lessens,<br />
gives without getting drunk more tall ornamented chariots<br />
than there are drops in the clouds<br />
that form over the rich Mullūr mountain<br />
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Modesty<br />
During peacetime, the king of Mulloor and Thirukkoiloor would usually start his daily routine in the paddy (nel), saamai and thinai fields working with his plough and sickle. He was strong and said to be so kind-hearted that he would rather plough his fields by hand than to trouble bulls to work for him.<br />
In one story about Kaari, the Tamil poet and saint Avvaiyaar II happened to pass by his field on course a long journey. Kaari quickly recognized the tired "mother" and without introducing himself requested that she look after his field for a few minutes and help herself to his rations in the meantime, so that he could go to a nearby pond to fetch some water. The king was away for long during which time the saint ate well and fell asleep. When sun rose the next day, Kaari returned to the field to find old mother angry. Kaari revealed his identity and explained that since she was a great friend of Athiyamaan of Thagadoor, who was his archrival, he feared she would not agree if he asked her to rest in his land. So he had to make her stay a while and bestow his land with her saintly presence. Avvaiyaar, flattered, blessed his country with perennial prosperity.<br />
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There are a lot of inscriptions available about various chiefs from the Malaiyaman family. They mostly suffixed the title Chēdirāyan to the name of the reigning Chola king whom they served. For example, we have Vikramasola Chēdirāyan and his son Vikramasola Kovalarayan, Kulottungasola Chēdirāyan etc. They were rulers of Miladu and also bore titles such as Milad-udaiyan meaning lord of Miladu, Maladu-mannar or king of the inhabitants of hills, Malaiya-manattarkukku arasar or the king of inhabitants of the great country of hills. Miladu or Maladu is a very pure Tamil form of Malainadu or the hill country. Meyporunayanar, a Chēdi king from Tirukovalur is mentioned in the Periyapuranam. Another important person from the same line was Pillai Perumāl Chēdirāyan, a contemporary of poet Kambar[13].<br />
We have a lot of chiefs of the Malaiyaman family making donations to temples in and around Tirukoyilur. For example, we find that Kulothunga Chola II gifted some lands for the puja at the local Vishnu temple at the request of Kulottungasola Chēdirāyan(ARE 124 of 1900). We have another chief called Rajendra Chola Chēdirāyan making donations to the temple(ARE 388 of 1909) in Tirukkoyilur. Yet another chief, Malaiyan Chēdirāyan endowed one vēli of land to the temple at Somasikiranur<br />
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Kadai ezhu vallal Paari Venthar

Malaiyamān Thirumudi Kāri was one of the kings of the Tamil royal house clan Velir of the Malaiyamān dynasty. He is one of Kadai ezhu valla...

Parkavakulam

Sub Divisions are

Nathaman ,Malaiyaman-Udayar ,

Suruthiman-Moopanar and Nainar are Called Parkavakulam.

All Are Mostly Land Lords In their Villages with Agricultural Base.

In Tamilnadu Spread Over In All Districts.

Majority Lives In Tanjore,Perambalur,Salem,Ramnad,Pudukottai,Madurai & Trichy.

A. T. Pannirselvam

NPV Ramasamy Udayar

G. K. Vasan,Union Minister of Shipping, Government of India

Dr. Murugesan Ponnavaikko,VC,SRM University

Kadai ezhu vallal Paari Venthar