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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil Wednesday Oct 9,2013

President Pranab Mukherjee presented the ‘Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil’ for the year 2009-10 and 2010-11 at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday Oct 9,2013

The Tolkappiyar Award for Lifetime Achievement in Classical Tamil was awarded to -
Dr. Iravatham Mahadevan for 2009-10 and


Prof. Tamizhannal Periakaruppan for 2010-11 respectively

The Kural Pitam Award was given to -
Dr. Jaroslav Vacek for 2009-10 and
Dr. John Ralston Marr for 2010-11 respectively

Young scholar awards for 2009-10 were conferred on -
  • Dr. T. Suresh
  • Dr. S. Kalpana
  • Dr. R. Chandrasekaran
  • Dr. Vaani Arivaalan and
  • Dr. C. Muthamizhselvan

Young scholar awards for 2010-11 were conferred on -
  • Dr. T. Sangayya
  • Dr. A. Jayakumar
  •  Dr. A. Mani
  • Dr. S. Chidambaram and 
  • Dr. K. Sundarapandian

The Tolkappiyar and Kural Pitam awardees were presented with a citation, shawl and a cash prize of Rs.5 lakh, the young scholar awardees received Rs. 1 lakh

The awards have been instituted by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development.

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