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Arumugam Munusamy
Arumugam or Arumukan is a Tamil male given name. Due to the Tamil tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females. Arumugam is one of the many names of the Hindu god Murugan, which refers to his six faces (Aru = six + Mugam = face). Notable people Given name * Arumugam, Indian politician * A. Arumugam, Indian politician * A. S. A. Arumugam, Indian politician * C. Arumugam, Indian politician * J. N. Arumugam (born 1896), Ceylonese civil servant * R. Arumugam (born 1953), Malaysian footballer * R. S. Arumugam, Indian politician * T. Arumugam, Indian politician * T. P. Arumugam, Indian politician * V. Arumugam, Indian politician * V. Arumugam, Malaysian politician * Veerapandi S. Arumugam (1937–2012), Indian politician * Arumuka Navalar (1822–1879), Ceylonese revivalist Surname * Arumugam Arulpiragasam (died 1975), Ceylonese civil servant * Arumugam Canagaratnam (born 1873), Ceylonese lawyer and politician * Arumugam Kandaiah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murugan
Kartikeya ( sa, कार्त्तिकेय, Kārttikeya), also known as Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha (), and Murugan ( ta, முருகன்), is the Hindu god of war. He is the son of Parvati and Shiva, the brother of Ganesha and a god whose legends have many versions in Hinduism. Kartikeya has been an important deity in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times, worshipped as Mahasena and Kumara in North India and is predominantly worshipped in the state of Tamil Nadu and other parts of South India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia as Murugan. Murugan is widely regarded as the "God of the Tamil people". It has been postulated that the Tamil deity of Murugan was syncretised with the Vedic deity of Subrahmanya following the Sangam era. Both Muruga and Subrahmanya refer to Kartikeya. The iconography of Kartikeya varies significantly; he is typically represented as an ever-youthful man, riding or near an Indian peafowl, called Paravani, bearing a vel and so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arumugam Canagaratnam
Arumugam Canagaratnam ( ta, ஆறுமுகம் கனகரத்தினம்; 1873–1929) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Early life and family Canagaratnam was born in 1873. He was the son of Visuvanathan Arumugam. Canagaratnam was educated at Jaffna Central College and Wesley College, Colombo. He had his higher education in Calcutta. Canagaratnam's nephew C. Sittampalam was a government minister. Career Canagaratnam joined the legal profession after finishing his education. Canagaratnam became chairman of the Rural Education Development Board in the 1920s. He was also chairman of the Jaffna Local Board and Jaffna Urban Council. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Ceylon as the member for the Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Northern Province South at the 1924 Ceylonese Legislative Council election, 1924 election. Canagaratnam campaigned for the establishment of the University of Ceylon and edited a nationalist journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loganathan Arumugam
Loganathan Arumugam (15 July 1953 – 4 June 2007), better known as Loga, was a Malaysian musician and singer who was one of the founding members of the band Alleycats. Loga was one of the lead singers of Alleycats along with his elder brother David. Dato Loganathan Arumugam died from lung cancer at the Mount Miriam Hospital on 4 June 2007. He left behind 2 children, Vigneshwaran Loganathan and Priyadashini Loganathan, and his wife, Susan Lovie. Datuk Loganathan Arumugam was conferred the Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang (DIMP) award which carries the title of "Dato" in conjunction with Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mu’azzam Shah ( Jawi: ; 24 October 1930 – 22 May 2019) was the fifth modern Sultan of Pahang, and also served as the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong ...'s 78th birthday on 24 October 2008. References 1953 births 2007 deaths Malaysian people of Indian descent Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Arumugam
Dato’ Thiagarajan K.R. Arumugam (born 3 May 1950), known by his stage name David Arumugam, is a Malaysian musician and singer who is one of the founding members of the band called Alleycats. He is the elder brother of Loganathan Arumugam. On 12 February 2009, David Arumugam was conferred the Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang (DIMP) award which carries the title of " Dato' " in conjunction with the Sultan of Pahang's 78th birthday on 24 October 2008. Early life David and his brother Loga were exposed to music making through their mother, radio announcer and Carnatic classical singer, who would often brought them along to her performance sessions; particularly in town halls. Such experiences instilled a strong passion in him to play music at a very young age. He often played truant in school to do rehearsals with a band that he performed with his friends, and he eventually quit school at the age of 17 because "history and geography was not helping me in my music." Honours * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arumugam Vijiaratnam
Arumugam Vijiaratnam (24 August 1921 – 18 February 2016) was the only Singaporean who represented his country in four sports — hockey, cricket, football and rugby — doing so from 1946 to 1956. He was the first Singaporean engineer. A top civil servant, Vijiaratnam represented Singapore at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games in hockey, where he was instrumental in the 6-1 rout of the United States. Education Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, Vijiaratnam studied in Victoria School in Singapore from 1937 to 1940. He was one of the first government scholars to demonstrate that sports and studies could be balanced successfully. He was awarded government scholarships to study engineering at Kuala Lumpur Technical College in 1941 and Brighton College of Advanced Technology in 1950 where he graduated with an engineering degree. He captained the hockey and cricket teams at the Brighton College of Advanced Technology. Career After he returned to Singapore in 1953, he worked for the Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arumugam Thondaman
Savumiamoorthy Arumugam Ramanathan Thondaman (29 May 1964 – 26 May 2020) was a Sri Lankan politician who served as a Cabinet Minister. He was the grandson of prominent unionist Saumyamoorthi Thondaman. He was the leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress, a Member of Parliament representing the Nuwara Eliya District and was an advocate for the Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka. His career as a politician spanned over 20 years, holding several ministerial portfolios in different governments. He was regarded as one of the prominent politicians from Nuwara Eliya. Early life and education Born on 29 May 1964, his father was Ramanathan Thondaman, the son of Saumyamoorthi Thondaman. He received his primary and secondary education at the Royal College, Colombo. Political career Thondaman entered politics in 1985 and he entered the mainstream politics when he contested the 1994 general elections from the Nuwara Eliya Electoral District representing the United National Party and was elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arumugam Pillai Coomaraswamy
Arumugampillai Coomaraswamy ( ta, ஆறுமுகம்பிள்ளை குமாரசுவாமி; 1783 – 7 November 1836) was a Ceylon Tamil member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Early life and family Coomaraswamy was born in 1783 in Garudavil near Point Pedro in northern Ceylon. He was the son of Arumugampillai. Coomaraswamy married Visalachchi. They had a son (Muthu Coomaraswamy) and a daughter (Sellachi). Coomaraswamy was the grandfather of four eminent Ceylon Tamils: Ananda Coomaraswamy, P. Coomaraswamy, P. Ramanathan and P. Arunachalam. Career Coomaraswamy was appointed Mudaliyar of the Governor's Gate in 1805. He was personal officer to Governor Brownrigg between 1812 and 1822. He also served governors Paget and Barnes. When the Legislative Council of Ceylon was established in 1833 Coomaraswamy was appointed as the unofficial member representing Tamils The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar ( ta, தமிழர், Tamiḻar, translit-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loose Mohan
Arumugam Mohanasundaram (8 February 1928 – 16 September 2012), popularly known as Loose Mohan and Raja Gopalakrishnan, was an Indian actor who had acted as a comedian in over 1000 Tamil films. He is credited with popularizing Madras Bashai, a Cockney of Tamil language spoken in Chennai city. Early life Born in Kanchipuram, son of old actor "Loose Arumugam", Mohan migrated to Madras at an early age and debuted at age 16 in the 1944 film ''Harichandra'' as P. U. Chinnappa's son. However, most of his successes were in the late 1970s and 1980s when he acted as a comedian alongside stars such as Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. Career He acted as servant in the movie "Kaththiruntha Kangal" 1962 film with Savithri and Gemini Ganesan. His breakthrough movie as a comedian was the 1979 film ''Rosapoo Ravikaikari'', after which he acted in more than 1000 films, including four movies in Marathi and one each in Bhojpuri, Hindi and Tulu. In 2000, Mohan was awarded the Kalaimamani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suresh Premachandran
Arumugam Kandaiah Premachandran ( ta, ஆறுமுகம் கந்தையா பிரேமச்சந்திரன்; born 8 November 1957; commonly known as Suresh Premachandran) is a Sri Lankan Tamil militant turned politician and former Member of Parliament. He is the current leader of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), a member of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Early life Premachandran was born on 8 November 1957, the son of a farmer. He was educated at Uruthirapuram Maha Vidyalayam and Senguntha Hindu College. He then joined Waterloo College, London and Madras Christian College where he studied political science. Premachandran got involved in the Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism movement whilst at school and in 1976, whilst in London, he joined the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS). He received military training from the Palestinians in Lebanon. In 1979 K. Pathmanabha left EROS to form the Eelam People's Revolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arumuka Navalar
Arumuka Navalar (; 18 December 1822 – 5 December 1879) was a Sri Lankan Shaivite Tamil language scholar, polemicist, and a religious reformer who was central in reviving native Hindu Tamil traditions in Sri Lanka and India. Navalar's birth name was Nallur Arumuga Pillai. He was born in a Tamil literary family, and became one of the Jaffna Tamils notable for reviving, reforming and reasserting the Hindu Shaivism tradition during the colonial era. As an assistant working for Peter Percival – a Methodist Christian missionary, he helped translate the King James Bible into the Tamil language. With his knowledge of Christian theological premises, Navalar became influential in creating a period of intense religious rivalry with Christian missionaries, defending Tamils and their historic religious culture in India and Sri Lanka, preventing large-scale conversions to Christianity. He was one of the first natives to use the modern printing press to preserve the Tamil literary tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamils
The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar ( ta, தமிழர், Tamiḻar, translit-std=ISO, in the singular or ta, தமிழர்கள், Tamiḻarkaḷ, translit-std=ISO, label=none, in the plural), or simply Tamils (), are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group who trace their ancestry mainly to India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, union territory of Puducherry and to Sri Lanka. Tamils who speak the Tamil Language and are born in Tamil clans are considered Tamilians. Tamils constitute 5.9% of the population in India (concentrated mainly in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry), 15% in Sri Lanka (excluding Sri Lankan Moors), 7% in Malaysia, 6% in Mauritius, and 5% in Singapore. From the 4th century BCE, urbanisation and mercantile activity along the western and eastern coasts of what is today Kerala and Tamil Nadu led to the development of four large Tamil empires, the Cheras, Cholas, Pandyas, and Pallavas and a number of smaller states, all of whom were warring amongst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veerapandi S
Veerapandi may refer to: * Veerapandi, Coimbatore * Veerapandi, Salem * Veerapandi, Theni * Veerapandi, Viluppuram Veerapandi is a revenue village in the Mugaiyur block and Kandachipuram taluk of Viluppuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Geography Veerapandi is within Kandachipuram taluk, which is in the southwestern part of Viluppuram distri ... {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
