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Senior Lecturer in Tamil Business: +91-422-2692461

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya Email: snataraj@varmam.org


College of Arts & science Web: http://www.varmam.org/
Coimbatore – 641020
INDIA

SUMMARY

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Degree / Diploma Year University Grade


Ph.D. Tamil [Critical study 1989 -1993 University of Kerala Distinction
of Yapparunkala Viruthi ]
Diploma in Linguistics 1986 -1989 Madurai Kamaraj University First class
(English)
Master of Philosophy 1985 - 1986 Madurai Kamaraj University First class
[M.Phil] (Tamil)
Master of Arts [MA] 1983 - 1985 Madurai Kamaraj University First class
(Tamil)
Bachelor of Arts [BA] 1980 - 1983 Madurai Kamaraj University First class
(Tamil)

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.

Teaching and Research Supervision


Year University Degree
1996 – Till Date Sri Ramakrishna Mission Tamil and Research Methodology
Vidyalaya College of Arts and to M. Phil and Ph.D. Scholars
Science
1992 – Till Date Sri Ramakrishna Mission Tamil to Undergraduate Students
Vidyalaya College of Arts and
Science
1988 –1990 University of Kerala Tamil to Master of Arts students

Research Guidance and Supervision

• Guided and supervised M.Phil program. Degree awarded to seven scholars.


• Guiding and supervising three M.Phil scholars and six Ph.D. scholars.

Examination Board Membership


• Serving as a Member for Board of Studies for M.Phil and Ph.D. in Tamil, Bharathiar
University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Serving as an Examiner for Board of Studies for Master of Arts in Tamil,
Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore, India.
• Serving as a Member for Board of Studies for Under-Graduates in Tamil, at various
Autonomous Colleges under Bharathiar University.
• Served as an Examiner for Board of Studies for M.Phil in Tamil, Manonmaniam
Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Served as an Examiner and Convenor of the Ph.D. public viva-voce, Madurai
Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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

Area of Research Specialization

• 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 and Broadcastings:

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:

Additional Qualifications and Experiences


Learnt the following arts from the traditional gurus and have developed knowledge and
practice skills.
• Art of Varma (study of vital points in human and animal bodies)
- Using for medical (curative) purposes
- Teaching and practicing for the last 25 years
- Collected rare manuscripts on this ancient art
• Siddha Medicine and Herbal studies
- Currently practicing and teaching.
• Art of Kalari (the queen of Martial Art)
- Currently practicing and teaching
• Tantric Art and Mantras
- Collecting rare Manuscripts about folk Mantras and doing research
- Currently teaching

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

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