Among the galaxy of Sangita Kalanidhis adorning the wall of the Music Academy is Umayalpuram Swaminatha Iyer, who won the award in 1936. A disciple of Umayalpuram Krishna Bhagavatar and Sundara ...

For Tamil lovers, he was the grand old man — ‘Tamil Thathaa’ — who rescued palm leaf manuscripts containing ancient Tamil literature from the marauding army of hungry termites and published them. U.V.

New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to 'Tamil Thatha' U. Ve. Swaminatha Iyer on his birth anniversary on Saturday. The PM tweeted, "Remembering 'Tamil ...

CHENNAI: Over 3,000 letters, which were written 75 to 140 years ago and received by Thamizh Thatha U Ve Swaminatha Iyer, are now available for posterity, thanks to eight years of work by historian ...

Hailing U Ve Swaminatha Iyer for his towering contributions to the Tamil language, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday urged proper maintenance of the memorial dedicated to the Tamil scholar at ...

DMK President, former TN CM, M Karunanidhi, made a plea to the Centre to bring out a stamp in memory UV Swaminatha Iyer. CHENNAI: DMK President and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M Karunanidhi, ...

Chennai: The 178-year-old Presidency College in Chennai has produced two Nobel laureates Sir C.V. Raman and S. Chandrasekhar, one of the eminent scholars and former President S.Radhakrishnan had ...