S. Srinivasan (Kural translator)
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| birth_place = Kollegal, Karnataka, India
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| nationality = Indian
| known_for = Translating Tirukkural into Kannada
| occupation = Civil engineer
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S. Srinivasan is an Indian civil engineer, who is best known for translating the Tirukkural into Kannada.{{cite news
| last = Krishnamachari
| first = Suganthy
| title = Under the spell of the Kural
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Chennai
| publisher = Kasturi & Sons
| date = 20 November 2014
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/tirukkural-translations/article6618091.ece
| access-date = 14 October 2017}}
Biography
S. Srinivasan was born in Kollegal in Karnataka into a Tamil-speaking family. He did his schooling at Tharagapura and Alahalli villages. He then attended St. Philomena's College in Mysore and Sri Ramakrishna Mission Polytechnic at Coimbatore. He began his career in 1965 as civil engineer and retired in 2003. He then started writing for the Tamil magazine Udayam and came to be known to the Tamil readers as 'Udayam' Srinivasan.{{cite book
| last = Srinivasan
| first = S.
| title = Tirukkural in Kannada
| publisher = Central Institute of Classical Tamil
| edition = First
| date = 2014
| location = Chennai
| pages = xxiii
| language = kn
| isbn = 978-93-81744-05-5
}} His translation of Girish Karnad's 'Hayavadhana' was staged at the Delhi Tamil Sangam.
In 2014, Srinivasan translated the entire Kural text into Kannada in verse. It was published by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai.
See also
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References
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