{"id":12692,"date":"2023-05-19T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagotyagarajautsavam.org\/?p=12692"},"modified":"2023-05-21T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:03:22","slug":"professor-t-s-ramakrishnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chicagotyagarajautsavam.org\/?p=12692","title":{"rendered":"Professor T.S. Ramakrishnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12694\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagotyagarajautsavam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG-20230521-WA0010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chicagotyagarajautsavam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG-20230521-WA0010.jpg 768w, http:\/\/chicagotyagarajautsavam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG-20230521-WA0010-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/chicagotyagarajautsavam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG-20230521-WA0010-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>I am deeply shocked beyond imagination that Professor T.S. Ramakrishnan, one of our ultra- core volunteers of the Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam\u00a0 had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack on Friday the 19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> May 21, 2023 at the Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn,\u00a0 leaving behind his wife Nithya Rajan and daughters Nandini and Madhavi and son-in-law, Aravinth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only two weeks back (May 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2023), he was actively chanting Ramanuja Nootranthathi at HTGC temple. As a strong lover of classical and light music exclusively in Tamil language, apparently, he enjoyed every bit of the concert of Ranjani and Gayatri on the music of Ilayaraja, called Raja by Raga ( May 13, 2023).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He would constantly try to remind me that we should under CTU promote a special day for classical Carnatic composers of even pre-Tyagaraja days, like those of Muthu Thandavar (1525-1600), Marimutha Pillai (1712-1787) and Arunachala Kavi (1711-1779).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only on Monday, May 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I saw a youtube video by Vignesh Easwar and Ashwath Narayanan on Tamil compositions, exclusively devoted to Chidambaram. I genuinely wanted to reach him that same night but all my emails and phone numbers to them backfired.\u00a0 I hectically contacted other core volunteers like Dr. K.G. Srinivasan and many others somehow reach him.\u00a0 It looks as though it is God\u2019s will\u00a0 that he has to leave not just his immediate family , but every one of us alone and reach His abode as we read from ThirukkuraL\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0bb5\u0bc8\u0baf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0ba4\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only a year back he was very proud of his daughter, Nandini married to a Tamil family with the full hope that his daughter Nandini, will promote Tamil culture and traditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even from their elementary school days, he demanded his children to work as volunteers for CTU. \u00a0 His daughters as teenagers would take care of all gifts and certificates and will stay till all participants have received the gifts and certificates.\u00a0 When we organized annual music competitions, we had great difficulty in grading the performances that were often left with oral comments by the judges.\u00a0 Professor Ramakrishnan with his experience as the chairman of the accounting department at UIC had the clear vision and scientific knowledge to make the proper ranking with many statistical tools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also wanted his wife Nithya Rajan to make sure that she spends her time and effort to look for\u00a0 appealing gift items for all participating youths at the annual Tyagaraja Utsavam.\u00a0 I have myself seen in various houses where the participants have preciously,\u00a0 kept them on their desks.\u00a0 I wanted to thank the whole family when I found a top professional musician in Chennai carrying books in our CTU gift bag proudly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His love for Tamil literature and especially Kamba Ramayanam was so great that one day he even organized in his house a special series of talks by many local people to share their experience on various aspects of Tamil literature that they gathered at schools and colleges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In grief,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TES Raghavan<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply shocked beyond imagination that Professor T.S. 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