When tribal youth V Elumalai graduated in medicine and became a doctor last year, he was not only the first graduate in his family but also in his entire village. He is from Akkaraipatti in the Kalvarayan Hills, some 30 km from Tiruvannamalai. The village is 6 km away from Bimarapatti and some...
Penury stalked Thangakittu all through his childhood. Growing up he lived in a house without electricity and struggled to pay the nominal fee the village school was collecting. But Thangakittu managed to stay ahead. At 29 now, he works as a software architect in Scotland. Thangakittu’s family...
Everyone took it for a joke when Pechimutu, as a boy, told them he would become a doctor someday. He was a school dropout and was working in a mobile phone shop for a small salary. Now grown up, Pechimuthu is a doctor now and he is planning to do MD in Pediatrics. He has cleared Combined...
A headmaster of a corporation school in Madurai has revived a century old school that was heading towards closure due to lack of students. His novel initiatives included painting the school with various themes, community awareness and keeping the students and parents posted about school...
The Tamil Nadu government’s initiative to make a Tamil paper mandatory in the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) examinations is quite welcome, says Ilakkuvanar Thiruvalluvan, president, Tamil Protection Association. But more should be done, he says, suggesting the inclusion of the...
"It is unlikely you would get through the first group. You should switch to the third group." This is what Aadhiyan’s mother told him when he went to Class 12. Now Additional Civil Judge at Tiruppur District, 26-years-old Aadhiyan says he has come this far because he chose to change his life,...
Dr Jothi secured 200 out of 200 in all four major subjects in her Class 12 to achieve a cut off mark of 100% to get her MBBS seat. An impressive record indeed and it is a moving story of a man and his daughters from Kadaieeratti hamlet in Tamil Nadu – Karnataka border near Anthiyur in Erode...
A library is a public facility or a private utility – a storehouse of information. It is a portal to the world of knowledge. Tens and thousands of people, who cannot afford to buy expensive books or who are on the trail of research literature for their professional needs, swarm libraries. The...
While growing up, it would have seemed M Aravind was destined to take up his family profession of working for jewelers just like many other children in the area. But due to the perseverance of his father, Aravind’s hard work and with some help, Aravind studied BTech in Apparel Technology in...
Painted in bright colours, the school at Narasingamkootam in Kadaladi taluk of Ramanathapuram district presents a contrast to the typical government school. Established in 1975, it offers facilities on a par with any private school. And, the school provides nutritious supplementary meal in...
