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Udumalai Narayana Kavi (25 September 1899 – 23 May 1981) was a tamil poet.
Udumalai Narayana was born on 25 September 1899 in Poolavadi, a small village in Udumalaipettai taluk, Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu, India. His parents died at a very young age and poverty deprived him of school. With the help of his brother, he made a small living selling matchboxes to the nearby villages. Even when young he had a keen interest in play and music. He initially started off acting in plays at the local temple and then got connected with some leading play groups in Tamil Nadu. Today's Kollywood is an amalgamation of several of those play groups.
He is best known for writing several lyrics that were used in the freedom movement in his early days and between 1950 and 1972. He wrote lyrics for several Tamil movies. Several of the movies that he wrote lyrics for were box office hits including Velaikari, Nallathambi, Poompuhar, Manohara. He was affectionately known as "Kav
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Professor Damodaran M Vasudevan was the Dean of the College of Medicine at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the Principal of the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Kochi, India. After retirement on 31.12.2009, he still continues as the Head of PG Programs and Research, at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Kochi. After completing his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, he received his MD in Biochemistry from All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1971. Subsequently, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1994. He is an authority in allergy and immunology and has also worked extensively on cancer too. He has been the Principal of Government Medical College Thrissur. After his retirement from there, he joined the Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore and the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences as the Dean in 2000. From 2002 he has been in his present position. Vasudevan, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sci
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List of people on the postage stamps of India
Further information: Postage stamps and postal history of the Indian states
This is a list of people on the postage stamps of India.
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[edit]- Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, politician, Premier and Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir (1988)
- Maraimalai Adigal, Tamil lecturer, scholar and researcher (2007)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian President and Missile Man of the nation (2015)
- Jyoti Prasad Agarwala Cultural icon, nationalist, musician, poet and humanist (2004)
- Salim Ali, Ornithologist, explorer, ecologist, teacher and writer (1996)
- Zamin Ali, Educator, Poet, founded the first Department of Urdu in India.
- Dhirubhai Ambani, industrialist of Gujarat (2002)
- B. R. Ambedkar, founder of Navayana Buddhism, architect of the Constitution of India (1966, 1973, 1991, 2001, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017[1])[2][3]
- Alluri Sitarama Raju, revolutionary (1986)
- Annamacharya Saint, social reformer and singer-poet