Avinashilingam Chettiar's life CD realsed
A CD on the life of T.S. Avinashilingam Chettiar, founder of Avinashilingam University, was released by T.K. Shanmughanandam, Chancellor of the University, here, on Saturday. It was received by Saroja Prabhakaran, Vice-Chancellor, at a function organised by the university to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of its founder. The CD depicts Chettiar's life as a politician and an educationist.
His involvement in the freedom struggle and the nation building that followed also had been portrayed with the help of inputs from his close associates and friends. His commitment to the ideals of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Sivananda and the way he emulated them in his life and works were also depicted in the CD.He constantly worked for the uplift of the rural masses, especially women who had no access to education, said N. Markandan, former Vice-Chancellor, Gandhigram Rural University, who was the chief guest at the function. The Avinashilingam University was set up with the objective of helping the rural poor who were in need of proper educational avenues, he said.Dr. Markandan reminisced that Chettiar was a great visionary in Tamil literature.
