Remembering Thanulinga Nadar
Thiru. Thanulinga Nadar was born on the 17th of February in 1915 in Potrayadi village in Kanyakumari district in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. He had a keen interest in Hinduism from a young age. He practiced Hinduism with great devotion. He joined the army after working in the police department for some time. He worked as an advocate in the district court for some time after graduating in law. Thus, he worked as a policeman, soldier, lawyer, and teacher.
In 1946, he became a member of the Thiru Tamizhar organization. In 1947, Thiru Tamizhar became one of the Five Movement groups. During MGR’s tenure as chief minister, an incident took place around the Mandaikadu riots. A riot broke out between Hindus and Christians in Kanyakumari district. No significant steps were taken to protect Hindus by M.G.R. Then Thanulinga Nadar spoke directly and clearly to MGR regarding this issue to protect the Hindus.
In 1951, Thanulinga Nadar was elected as the President of the Tamil Nadu Travancore Congress Party. In 1951, Kanyakumari district merged with Tamil Nadu. In 1957, he became a Member of Parliament from Nagercoil and in 1964, a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha).
In 1971, Thanulinga Nadar left the Congress. In 1982, he took over as the president of the Hindu Munnani (‘Hindu Front’), and in 1987, he presided over the RSS Vijayadashami function in Nagpur. Along with Thiru Rama Gopalan continued to serve as the state president of the Hindu Munnani. Thiru. Thanulinga Nadar passed away while addressing the Dr. Hedgewar centenary gathering on the 2nd of November in 1988.
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She has an abiding passion for English literature. She wrote her first poem when she was seven years old.She is the author of seven books including four collections of poetry -‘Great Heights’, ‘The Glittering Galaxy’, ‘Galaxy’ and ‘New Poems’, a novel –‘The Fiery Women’ and two collections of short stories -‘Fragments’ and ‘Surreal Stories’. She has been included in the landmark book, ‘A Critical Survey of Indo- English Poetry’ (2016) and is also one of the fifty women poets writing in English in India, who have been covered in the colossal work, ‘History of Contemporary Indian English Poetry’ (2019). She is also an associate editor of the poetry anthology, ‘Muse of Now Paradigm- An Entry into Poepro’, published in India in 2020. She is also the founder of ‘IndLit Camerata’, a Whatsapp group of Indian litterateurs. In addition, she has been a part of multiple collaborative poetry books like ‘Confluence Volume 2’, ‘Confluence Volume 3’, ‘Confluence Volume 4’ and ‘Madras Hues, Myriad Views’.Her poetry has been published in India, U.K., U.S.A. and South Korea. In addition to poems, short stories and a novel, she has written essays, general articles, critical articles, research articles, book reviews and forewords.
She was the chief guest of 'Poets League', a poetry initiative organised by the post-graduate department of English of Kristu Jayanthi College, Bangalore in 2020.
She has received two letters of appreciation for her poetry from 'THE MISSILE MAN', Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.
Thus, Dr.S.Padmapriya has a multifaceted personality and has established herself as a fine Author, Educator, Orator and Thinker.
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