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New Indian Express
17-05-2025
- General
- New Indian Express
Remembering a visionary...152 years on
In 1873, 152 years ago, Dharmarathnakara Rai Bahadur Arcot Narrainsawmy Mudaliar, known as the 'merchant prince of Bengaluru' founded the first free English primary school in Bengaluru on Commercial Street. In the following decades, Mudaliar would go on to start many more institutions focused on serving low income, first-generation learners from marginalised caste-class backgrounds for whom the barriers to accessing an education were sky high, including one for girls. It is to celebrate him and his vision that RBANM's educational charities hosted their Founder's Day celebrations on May 14, held at the newly-renovated Sabha, Kamaraj Road, which was once an RBANM school. Advocate and RBANM's secretary Arvind Narrain, walked an audience of Mudaliar's family members, staff from RBANM's institutions, and other guests through the founder's journey of establishing schools, orphanages, and technical institutes at the 'high noon of colonialism'. Narrain said, 'The founder himself did not know English but understood the importance of an education in English. It [his institution] was the first place where Indians could learn English,' Interestingly, the first principal was social reformer and freedom fighter Bipin Chandra Pal, who was associated with the Brahmo Samaj. 'Brahmo Samaj encouraged the education of women, campaigned for widow remarriage and was against the system of caste. In terms of his vision, the founder wanted a principal who embodied that way of thinking about education being for all people,' added Narrain.
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Time of India
Road accident victim's family awarded Rs 40 lakh relief
Bhopal: A local court awarded compensation of Rs 40.52 lakh to the dependants of businessman GP Rajesh Mudaliar , who died in a road accident in court instructed the owner and driver of the tractor involved in the accident, along with a company that insured the vehicle, to pay the compensation Hingorani, counsel for the deceased's family, said 50-year-old Mudaliar, a resident of Kotra Sultanabad, was riding his bike from Polytechnic Square to Kilol Park at 12:30 pm on June 8, 2023, when a rashly driven tractor hit his vehicle from behind, leaving him critically wounded. He was rushed to Hamidia Hospital , where he was declared dead upon arrival.A case was registered against the driver and the owner of the tractor following an FIR and a chargesheet presented in court. Hearing the compensation suit, the court of Principal District Judge Manoj Shrivastava awarded an amount of Rs 40.52 lakh as compensation to Mudaliar's family.
