PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR CLASSICAL TAMIL PRESENTED
President
Pranab Mukherjee presented the ‘Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil’ for
the year 2009-10 and 2010-11 at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday,9th
October,2013.While the Tolkappiyar Award for lifetime achievement in classical
Tamil was awarded to Dr. Iravatham Mahadevan and Prof. Tamizhannal
Periakaruppan for 2009-10 and 2010-11 respectively, the Kural Pitam Award was
given to Dr. Jaroslav Vacek and Dr. John Ralston Marr.
Kural Pitam awards
Young
scholar awards for 2009-10 were conferred on Dr. T. Suresh, Dr. S. Kalpana, Dr.
R. Chandrasekaran, Dr. Vaani Arivaalan and Dr. C. Muthamizhselvan, while Dr. T.
Sangayya, Dr. A. Jayakumar, Dr. A. Mani, Dr. S. Chidambaram and Dr. K.
Sundarapandian received the awards for 2010-11.The awards were given to them
for showing excellence and promise in teaching, research and publication in
classical Tamil.While the Tolkappiyar and Kural Pitam awardees were presented
with a citation, shawl and a cash prize of Rs.5 lakh, the young scholar
awardees received Rs. 1 lakh.The awards have been instituted by the Central
Institute of Classical Tamil functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Human
Resource Development.
Prof. John Kurakar
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