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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
Professional Experience:
Research Projects
Research Project titles ‘A Prosodical Study of Tamil Folk Songs’, sponsored by the
University Grants Commission (UGC) 1997-98, was under taken and successfully
completed.
Ongoing work on “An Embodical Study of Varmalogy”, sponsored by the University Grants
Commission (UGC) 2003 - 2006.
Resource Person
• Serving as a resource person in various Seminars / Conferences / Workshops
Organizational Experience
• Organized three national seminars on "Kavi Arasu Kannadasan" (great Tamilian poet)
at the University of Kerala, 1989-’91.
• Conducted a National Workshop on Manuscriptology sponsored by the University
Grants Commission, Government of India, 1999.
Awards
2002 - Best Article Award issued by All India University Tamil Teachers Association
1998 - Passed National Educational Test by University Grand Commission (UGC)
1985 - Gold Medal for College First issued by Kanchi Kamakodi Peedam
• Traditional grammar, especially, Tamil Prosody (doing research from 1987 onwards)
• Folk art forms
• Varmalogy (Indian study of Pressure Points) –Study of the Major Streams in the body
that includes heat, blood, Air and Two vital energy streams (Common one and other
based on planetary positions)
• Manuscriptology and Inscriptions
• Folk Songs and village Deities (Synchronous/Asynchronous themes of music, folk art
forms of dispersed locations)
• Metaphysical Studies
Publications
• Had published 30 articles / papers in the National and International Conferences /
Seminars and in Journals
• As Co-Editor, published two books
KAVIPPUNAL – Collection of Seminar Papers (1990)
KAVIPPERUKKU – Collection of Seminar Papers (1991)
• Edited and published one book.
CUVADIYAL CUVADUKAL – Collection of Workshop papers on Manuscripts
(1999)
• Published one booklet.
Inscriptions and Temple study
• One book about WTO (In Print)
Translation work
• Translated "Malayala Manorama Year Book", from English to Tamil, 1990.
• Translated "Invasion That Never Was", from English to Tamil (In print)
Radio Talks
• One talk in Trivandrum AIR, (All India Radio).
• More than five talks at Coimbatore AIR.
• Three talks at Prachar Bharathi Tuticorin AIR, which is broadcasted for East Asian
countries
Eastern Arts:
Working Knowledge
Have acquired basic working knowledge on the following arts
• Palmistry
• Astrology
• Vasthu Sasthra (Vedic science of Architecture and City Construction)
• Anka Sasthra (Vedic science of body structure)
Languages Known:
Read/Write/Speak
• Tamil
• Malayalam
• English
Working Knowledge
• Kannada
• Sanskrit