FOREIGN TRAVEL:
PRIZES AND SLLUES'S
OTHER
PARTICULARS :
Lecture tours to Sri Lanka in 1966 and 1977.
First prize for the book Ilakkiya Anikal awarded by the Govt. of Tamil Nadu for the best work on literary studies in 1972.
First prize for the best poem in a competi-
tion conducted at the inter-University level, 1953.
Canka-nir - Celvar-title awarded by Tontaimantala Atinam, 1976.
Ceit-cor-Pulavar - title awarded by Tamil Nadu Nalvali Nilaiyam, 1974.
Pulavar Eru - title awarded by Tiruvannda- malait Kunrakkufi Atinam, 1972.
1. President, Faculty of Indian and Other Languages, University of Madras, Madras.
2. Honorary Research Secretary, Institute of Tamil, Sanskrit and other Indian Languages, Madras.
3. Director, Tamil Writers’ Co-operative Society, Madras.
4. Former Secretary; Present Vice- President, Academy of Tamil Culture, Madras.
5. Life member, Dravidian Linguistic Association, Trivandrum.
6. President, Madras School Book and Literature Society, Madras.
7. Member, Language Sub-Committee for Tamil for Higher Secondary Educa- tion.
8. Member, Tamilakap Pulavar Kulu, Tiruchirappalli.
9. Member, Tamil Development Council, Govt. of ‘T'amil Nadu, Madras.
