"The Great Hindus Of Malaysia"

  The first Malaysian Indian to start a cargo flight from KLIA to Chennai. Rajan, who grew up in Sepang Estate is currently managing cargo flight using myJet Boeing 737 முதல் மலேசியரான சிப்பாங் மண்ணின் மைத்தரான ராஜன் அவர்கள் புதிய சாதனையாக கோலாலம்பூர் கே.எல்.ஐ.ஏ.விலிருந்து சென்னைக்கு நேரடி சரக்கு விமான சேவையை தொடங்கியுள்ளார். வாழ்த்துகள். 29-1-2021 For more details:  https://www.facebook.com/vanakkammalaysiadotcom/videos/325975608696988/

  There’s a gazillion things that we tend to complain about, but deep down Malaysia is our homeland; it’s here that we belong! This has been a year for our Malaysian to sit up and take pride in their identity, as notable Indians have achieved great achievements in their respective fields. For more details:  https://varnam.my/lifestyle/2020/36492/malaysian-indians-who-made-us-proud-in-2020/

  Malaysian youth Mogesh Sababathy has been named among 20 finalists for this year’s Commonwealth Youth Awards. According to the Commonwealth website, Mogesh, 23, is among inventors, activists and entrepreneurs from 18 countries who have been shortlisted. For more details:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/01/28/malaysian-youth-a-finalist-for-commonwealth-award/

  P Murugiah – humanitarian who tends unclaimed dead bodies and needy living by Himanshu Bhatt P Murugiah, a Hindu welfare icon in Penang, has helped arrange funerals for the most destitute and forgotten individuals in our society. Many years ago, scores of unclaimed dead bodies, including those of homeless children, were piling up within the Penang Hospital mortuary. It pushed P. Murugiah into a lifelong mission reserved for only the most selfless of hearts. -----------------------------------------------------------   Sometime in the early 80s, the now defunct The Echo newspaper ran a story about unclaimed bodies piling up in the mortuary of the Penang Hospital. There was talk of bones and skulls seen floating at a river near the Batu Lanchang cemetery. The report intrigued a young man who had joined the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) as a despatch clerk just a few years earlier, and who was now its research officer. P. Murugiah decided to investigate ...

  The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which commemorates the day when Goddess Pavarthi gave her son Lord Muruga an invincible lance to destroy evil demons, is celebrated by some two million ethnic Indians in Malaysia and Singapore.  During this full moon in the Tamil month of Thai, let's revisit some fascinating bits of the festival that commemorates the feats of the Hindu deity, Lord Subramaniam.   For more details:  https://www.thevibes.com/articles/culture/15587/thaipusam-through-the-decades

  PETALING JAYA: The late B C Sekhar, a former chairman of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, (RRIM) was honoured by the Kerala state government in India yesterday. The Vibes reported that the state will be naming one of its soon-to-be-established, fully autonomous inter-university centres and schools after Sekhar. The announcement was made at the Kerala state assembly by the state’s finance minister T M Thomas Isaac when tabling Kerala’s 2021-22 budget. For more details: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/01/16/ex-rri-chairman-b-c-sekhar-receives-prestigious-honour-from-kerala-government/

  He created history by becoming the first Asian, the first Malaysian to head the Rubber Research Institute and then the Malaysian Rubber Board. He also created the Palm Oil Research Institute and all the linked bodies that would become the Palm Oil Board. For more details:  https://www.thevibes.com/articles/lifestyles/6251/legacies-for-generations