Sanskrit varsity Vice Chancellor and Pro VC to retire on Monday
The Hindu
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) Vice Chancellor Dharmaraj Adat and Pro Vice Chancellor K.S. Ravikumar will retire on November 29.Dr. Adat has 32 years of teaching experience and 40 bo
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) Vice Chancellor Dharmaraj Adat and Pro Vice Chancellor K.S. Ravikumar will retire on November 29.
Dr. Adat has 32 years of teaching experience and 40 books to his credit. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Endowment Award, K. Damodaran Smaraka Puraskaram, Sahodaran Ayyappan Smaraka Puraskaram, and Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award.
Dr. Ravikumar has to his credit 10 books of literary criticism in Malayalam. He has also edited 20 books, and translated two. He was a member of the General Council of Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) New Delhi, and Advisory Board Member of the National Book Trust for Malayalam language. He has won Fr. Abraham Vadakkel Award, Dr. C.P. Menon Award, Suvarnakairali Award, Prof. Narendra Prasad Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, and Abu Dhabi Sakthi Thayat Award.
Chennai has two categories of Black kites: a larger group heading to the city from the western parts of India during the south west monsoon and heading back when the monsoon is past; and another group, smaller and resident, which would make minor movements in and around Chennai looking for an optimal atmosphere for nesting and raising the young. A couple of pylons in Perumbakkam suggest that Black kites have found an ideal nesting space there
This is part of the Karnataka Namakarana Suvarna Mahotsava celebrations organised to mark the naming of the State as ‘Karnataka’ during the tenure of the late D. Devaraj Urs. The statue, sculpted at an approximate cost of ₹21.24 crore, is 41-foot-tall including the pedestal and weighs around 31.5 tonnes.