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2 unusual facts about Iyengar


Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, Iyengar generally referred to as K. S. Krishnan or KSK, was born on December 4, 1898 in Watrap, Tamil Nadu.

Revathy Krishna

Hailing from the disciple lineage of composer Thyagaraja, she is the great grand daughter of Thillaisthanam Rama Iyengar, the devoted disciple of saint Thyagaraja.


H. R. Janardhana Iyengar

Janardhana Iyengar and his wife, Indiramma Iyengar, had five sons—B.K. Ramaswamy (born 1934), B.J. Srinivas (1938), B. Rangaraj (1940), M. J. Krishnamurthy (1942) and M. J. Prakash (1944)--and two daughters: J. Rathna (wife of K. K. Srinivasan; 1936) and J. Lavanya, born in 1950.

K. K. Srinivasan

Soon afterwards, he married Rathna Janardhana Iyengar (daughter of Indiramma Iyengar and H. R. Janardhana Iyengar) in a grand marriage ceremony in Mysore on March 22, 1954.

S. Parthasarathi Ayyangar

Ayyangar was the second son of K. C. Srinivasa Iyengar, B.A, a leading mirasudar of Kulumani, which is a suburb of the town of Trichy.

Shamaiya Iyengar

son of Vasudeva Iyengar, was the minister of the police and the post office (also served as the intelligence department) during the time of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan.

Sheena Iyengar

Sheena Iyengar is an Academic Member of the Behavioral Finance Forum, a Fellow at the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University, an Oversight Board Member at the ING Institute for Retirement Research, and an Institute Fellow at TIAA-CREF.

V. Ramiengar

In May 1871, Ram Iyengar was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India.


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