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Popular Iyengars in two major sects of the community

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I would like to start this thread to seek details of famous Iyengars of both Vadakalai and Thenkalai sects...In case it is not available you can just say Iyengar...I want Iyengars to feel proud of their lineage, culture and the contribution...Let us cover all areas right from Religion to professions such as Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers, IT leaders, Media persons, Musicians (Carnatic, Hindustani, Percussion), Politics to actors/actress...

This thread is not going to compete with another thread for Iyers which has already deviated from the main course and moved into different territory

I beseech all postees to focus only on the topic of discussion...Let us create a knowledge bank of Iyengars for posterity...
 
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vgane said:
Looks like you have created an acronym PI[SUP]2
[/SUP]May be even PI2PI
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I prefer PIPI cos that sounds like Pipi the sound made when we blow the nadaswaram!

So everyone can blow their own Nadaswaram!LOL(trumpet is a western instrument)

Let the fun begin!
 
List from Wikipedia

Spiritual leaders

Agnihotram Ramanuja Tatachariar (1907–2008) - Vedic scholar.
Chinna Jeeyar Swamy
Manavala Mamuni
Nathamuni
Pillai Lokacharya
Vedanta Desika
Yamunacharya
Swami Parthasarathy
Alasinga Perumal - Inspired Vedanta Kesari.

Journalism

Gopalan Kasturi- Former Editor of The Hindu from 1965 to 1991.[1]
Kasturi Ranga Iyengar(1859–1925)- Indian journalist. Former Managing-director of The Hindu from 1909 to 1925.
Siddharth Varadarajan- Current editor of The Hindu.[2]
Tunku Varadarajan-New York-based journalist and editor of Newsweek International.
N. Ram- Former Managing-Director of The Hindu and recipent of Padma Bhushan.
N. Ravi- Former Editor-in-chief of The Hindu from 1991 to 2003.
Sreenath Sreenivasan- Technology journalist based in New York City.

Diplomats, bureaucrats, administrators and politicians

K. Subrahmanyam- Prominent international strategic affairs analyst, journalist and former Indian civil servant
Vimala Rangachar, President of MES Institutions, Bangalore, Founder of Crafts Council of Karnataka,
T. S. S. Rajan (1880–1953), Indian politician and freedom-fighter. Member of the Imperial Legislative Council (1934–1936), Minister of Public Health and Religious Endowments (Madras Presidency) (1937–1939), Minister of Food and Public Health (Madras Presidency) (1946–1951)
Ramiengar, Dewan of Travancore from 1881 to 1887.
Sir V. Bhashyam Aiyangar (1844–1908) Lawyer and jurist. First Indian Advocate-General of Madras.
P. Rajagopalachari, Dewan of Cochin from 1897 to 1901 and Travancore from 1904 or 1906 to 1914.
Sir V.T.Krishnamachari - Dewan of Baroda.
C. Vijayaraghavachariar - The Lion of South India.[3]
C Rajagopalachari - Bharat Ratna, Freedom fighter, national leader, the first Indian Governor General of Independent India and also the Chief Minister of State of Madras.
C. V. Rungacharlu (1831–1883), Indian civil servant. Diwan of Mysore kingdom from 1881 to 1883.
Dr.K.Sreenivasan IPS, Senior Bureaucrat and Former DG & IGP, Karnataka.

Entertainers

Hema Malini (b.1948) - Indian actress, director and producer, Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer, politician with the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP).[4]
R. Madhavan (b.1970) - Indian actor, writer, film producer and television host.[5]
Vasundhara Das (b.1977) - Indian actress and singer.[6]

Literature

Chikkupadhyaya - Kannada writer, teacher of Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar.

Yoga
Nathamuni Authored Yoga Rahasya
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya - Father of modern yoga, yogi and healer who taught B.K.S. Iyengar, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi.
 
TV Sundaram Iyengar (TVS) and family. Venu Srinivasn of TVS family has renovated navthirupathis (divyadesams); he is also a trusteed of the putaparti Saibaba trust.

Sir S Varadachari Iyengar, first indian supreme court justice

Vaijayantimala, Jayalalitha.

The Illustrated Weekly of India, when kushwant singh was its editor, ran a special issue on Iyengars, as part of a series on well known communities.
 
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K. Subrahmanyam- Prominent international strategic affairs analyst, journalist and former Indian civil servant
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zebra16 said:
Appears to be a doubtful inclusion. I havent seen iyengars having the name of Subrahmanyam
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if one wish to check out every thing with a 40000X microscope, then one need to avoid taking credits about Hemamalini, for she abandoned traditions and married a muslim.

this attitude is exactly where I had an argument with you few weeks ago, and you attempted to paint me smartly me an outcast quoting the infamous nara supported by happyhindu aka palindrome.

Im against double standards.. Thats what I tried to project in my support towards Kamal vis a vis aunty J.J
 
ShivKC said:
if one wish to check out every thing with a 40000X microscope, then one need to avoid taking credits about Hemamalini, for she abandoned traditions and married a muslim.

this attitude is exactly where I had an argument with you few weeks ago, and you attempted to paint me smartly me an outcast quoting the infamous nara supported by happyhindu aka palindrome.

Im against double standards.. Thats what I tried to project in my support towards Kamal vis a vis aunty J.J
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Of course the question asked by Nara remains unanswered. You are nobody to declare who should be included in the credit or debit list. If you have a difference of opinion about the inclusion of certain names, make your post giving your point of view.

You have no locus standii to comment on the "atitude" of a certain community and comment as if you belong to it, especially when there is an open question to about your present status being a member of the said community.
 
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renuka said:
From Popular Iyers to Popular Iyengars..we are really having fun in forum!LOL
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hi doctor,
i cant control my laugh....im here in this forum more than 5 years....i can smell the direction of the threads.. i hope the thread

starter intention is valid....hope for the best....lol
 
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tbs said:
hi doctor,i cant control my laugh....im here in this forum more than 5 years....i can smell the direction of the threads.. i hope the threadstarter intention is valid....hope for the best....lol
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The thread's names are Iyer or Iyengar personalities. If it had been Vaidikas and Srivaishnavas, most names in the Wiki List would become a joke/laughable stock! They represent onlytheir castes, not their spiritual heritage or purpose.

Flies enjoy the pollen in the flowers, by doing so, they also pollinate the flowers to produce more seeds. So, that is part of adaptation and survival, with that also comes the craziness.These personalities contribute either for their own status or pride, so they are no different than the accidental volunteers like the Honey bees.

But, the great personalities who enrich the mass with the real spiritual tenets, be it philosophy or values are the real contributors of the Society. Talking about others (non-value-adders), results in momentary jAmun pleasure, for dopamine spike! Mananam/remembrance of these people will not in any way enrich our self or intellect.
 
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Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Jnanpith Award Winner.

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is it not great that Tamil Brahmins have made sizable contribution to Literature in other South Indian languages also.

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar _ Kannada

Ulloor Parameswara Iyer _ Malayalam

Venkteswarlu - Telugu - I am not able to locate the biodata. I know about him because of his son whom I met in NDA, Pune.

And of course R.K. Narayanan in English
 
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Another famous Iyengar is T.T.Jagannathan also known as Kitchen moghul for the Kitchen appliances ..He owns the TTK group...He figures in the Forbes Top 100 list of Richest Indians
 
One more famous Iyengar.


Shanto Iyengar


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Shanto Iyengar


Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of Iowa





Biography:
Shanto Iyengar holds the Chandler Chair in Communication at Stanford University where he is also Professor of Political Science and Director of the Political Communication Laboratory. Iyengar’s areas of expertise include the role of mass media in democratic societies, public opinion, and political psychology. Iyengar’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Hewlett Foundation. He is the recipient of several professional awards including the Philip Converse Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in the field of public opinion, the Murray Edelman Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University. Iyengar is author or co-author of several books, including News That Matters (University of Chicago Press, 1987), Is Anyone Responsible? (University of Chicago Press, 1991),Explorations in Political Psychology (Duke University Press, 1995), Going Negative (Free Press, 1995), and Media Politics: A Citizen’s Guide(Norton, 2011).






 
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There are brahmins who value and cherish their lineage and anushtanams.
There are brahmins who pracice anushtanams from 100% to very low % (limited to annual and loukika samskarams), but in heart are proud of their lineage.
There are brahmins who want to be included in the list, claim to be brahmins, but have made it their life's duty to badmouth brahmins and their traditions.
There are people who claim they are no longer brahmins but respect brahminical way of life. They have renounced brahmin varna and have chosen a different path.

The path they choose will be decided by their karma or by their free will if they do not believe in karma.

ShivKC said:
if one wish to check out every thing with a 40000X microscope, then one need to avoid taking credits about Hemamalini, for she abandoned traditions and married a muslim.

this attitude is exactly where I had an argument with you few weeks ago, and you attempted to paint me smartly me an outcast quoting the infamous nara supported by happyhindu aka palindrome.

Im against double standards.. Thats what I tried to project in my support towards Kamal vis a vis aunty J.J
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renuka said:
BTW what about the selfless humble Iyengar priests who serve Narayana on daily basis?
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They learn the vedas, agamas and atleast basic philosophy from the maTham ( run pAtashAlAs. The credit solely
goes to the Vedic Scholars of that maTham. Which in turn solely goes to the foremost Acharya of that maTham,
which traces back to his Acharya/guru etc. This is exactly why we have the tradition of institution or sampradAya. Before
anyone takes personal credit, all credit originates in the Vedic owner/Lord.
 
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