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Chennai Presidency College Jackfruit Morus alba. Krishnaswami Venkataraman was born on 7 June 1901 in Madras (present-day Chennai), Madras Presidency during the British Colonial rule, in a learned Tamil Brahmin family, to P. S. Krishnaswami, a civil engineer, Sanskrit scholar and the translator of Valmiki Ramayana into Tamil, as the middle-born of his three sons. [2]
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), [1] better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
The Deccan Traps shown as dark purple spot on the geologic map of India. During his research collaborative study at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Krishnaswami assisted Harmon Craig in his discovery of 210Pb-226Ra radioactive disequilibrium in the deep sea [4] and his association with K. K. Turekian at Yale University helped develop U-Th series nuclide applications in aquatic systems ...
Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) [1] [2] was an Indian poet and scholar [3] of Indian literature and linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago .
Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi (1903–1994) was an Indian medical doctor, Gandhian, social worker and the founder of Voluntary Health Services (VHS), [1] a medical facility in Chennai reported to be serving the lower and middle-class people of the society.
His father, P. S. Krishnaswami, was a sanitary engineer in the Madras Government who after retirement undertook the first complete translation into Tamil of Valmiki’s Ramayana. Swaminathan had an elder sister, Veda, who died in 1936.
Krishnaswami learned more than 500 songs while still a child. After completing secondary education, she enrolled for the Sangeeta Siromani course in Kalakshetra at Adayar , Chennai . At Kalakshetra she came under the influence of doyens like Rukmini Devi Arundale , Tiger Varadachariar and Papanasam Sivan .
Colathur Rama Krishnaswamy Rao Sahib (2 February 1927 – 12 February 2013) [2] was an Indian civil servant who served as 15th Cabinet Secretary of India from 1981-1985. He also served as the Secretary to Prime Minister Charan Singh.