S. Srinivasan (Kural translator)

S. Srinivasan
S. Srinivasan
Born	Kollegal, Karnataka, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Civil engineer
Known for	Translating Tirukkural into Kannada

S. Srinivasan is an Indian civil engineer, who is best known for translating the Tirukkural into Kannada.^[1]

Biography

S. Srinivasan was born in Kollegal in Karnataka into a Tamil-speaking family. He did his schooling at Tharagapura and Alahalli villages. He then attended St. Philomena's College in Mysore and Sri Ramakrishna Mission Polytechnic at Coimbatore. He began his career in 1965 as civil engineer and retired in 2003.^[1] He then started writing for the Tamil magazine Udayam and came to be known to the Tamil readers as 'Udayam' Srinivasan.^[2] His translation of Girish Karnad's 'Hayavadhana' was staged at the Delhi Tamil Sangam.^[1]

In 2014, Srinivasan translated the entire Kural text into Kannada in verse. It was published by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Krishnamachari, Suganthy (20 November 2014). "Under the spell of the Kural". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b Srinivasan, S. (2014). Tirukkural in Kannada (in Kannada) (First ed.). Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil. pp. xxiii. ISBN 978-93-81744-05-5.

[Hindu_SpellOfKural-1] Krishnamachari, Suganthy (20 November 2014). "Under the spell of the Kural". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. Retrieved 14 October 2017.

[SSrinivasan_Tirukkural-2] Srinivasan, S. (2014). Tirukkural in Kannada (in Kannada) (First ed.). Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil. pp. xxiii. ISBN 978-93-81744-05-5.

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