In April 1977, V. R. Nedunchezhiyan the Minister for Education in the DMK cabinet left the party with some other leaders like K. Rajaram, S. Madhavan and P. U. Shanmugam and formed the "Makkal Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam".
S. Madhavan | N. S. Madhavan | G. Madhavan Nair | Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan | James Madhavan |
Branching into acting, he made his debut in Kaya Taran, a television adaptation of a Malayalam short story by N. S. Madhavan, When Big Tree Falls, The Earth Is Bound To Shake.
Madhavan quit Bank of America in September 2005 and joined forces with C. V. Madhukar to open PRS Legislative Research.
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Madhavan holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from IIT Madras and an MBA and PhD from IIM Calcutta.
She is the daughter of the famous Malayalam writer and former IAS officer N. S. Madhavan who is one of the most powerful voice of Malayalam literature.
In this work, Madhavan models his protagonist, priest Father Geevarghese, on René Higuita, the 1990 FIFA World Cup goalkeeper for Colombia.
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Their daughter, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan is a well-known blogger and the author of 2 English novels, You Are Here, Confessions of a Listmaniac and the bestseller Cold Feet.
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When Big Trees Fall, a short story by Madhavan, is about the homicidal attacks on the Sikhs that occurred following the 1984 assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and has been filmed as the Hindi movie, Kaya Taran by Sashi Kumar in 2004.
The film, about a group of friends at the crossroads of life, features a set of new actors including Natasha Hudson, Sazzy Falak and Hans Isaac with noted Tamil actor, Madhavan in a guest appearance.