Vadhirajan Muralidharan
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Vadhirajan Muralidharan: Founder, Sevalaya
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Vaiyath Thalaimai Kol (Lead the World), about the leadership qualities of Gandhi and Vivekananda.
If Kasuva, a village 40 km west of Chennai, can boast of not having even a single child out of school, much of the credit goes to Vadhirajan Muralidharan, a former Tata Consultancy Services’ employee who believes in Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi’s mantra, that educating one poor child is holier than constructing a thousand temples.
Kasuva could have been just another village with no school or hospital, but Muralidharan decided to start an orphanage in this village in 1989, calling it Sevalaya. And what stands today is a 1,000-strong higher secondary school offering free education, an orphanage for 150 students, a craft centre, an old age home, a medical centre and a library.
His unique syllabus, BGV, which allows him to integrate the teachings of Bharathi, Gandhi and Vivekananda in the syllabus, has become so popular that Sevalaya teachers are disseminating it in Chennai, Madurai and Trichi prisons.
-by Banumathi Krishnaswamy
