KNOW YOUR MEMBER CS T.N.Sridharan

                         

 

We are happy and privileged to write about  CS T. N Sridharan who is doing many charitable activities for the past 20 years. Over to Mr. TN Sridharan..

 

1.        What was your graduation? Tell us about your college days.

 

         I did my B.Sc.,(Physics) From Madras University. I did my graduation from C.Kandaswami Naidu College for Men at Anna Nagar, Chennai.  Thereafter i did my BL from Dr.Ambedkar Law College, Chennai. During college days as i was focusing on my studies and preparing for         competitive exams.

 

2.       What were the Companies you worked with?

         I worked as Company Secretary in Hallmark Healthcare Ltd., a listed company in Delhi from 1994 to 1996 and as Company Secretary in Sri Sarbati Steels Limited, Chennai from 1997-2001.

              3.       When did you first start doing charitable activities? What was the reason behind it?

         In my view, we should not call service to society as charity, but it is a part of our duty.  Only when haves take care of have nots, that brings real peace in the world.  This is the motto of my life. 

 

If we take few underprivileged children and shape them into a valuable citizen, that gives a real meaning to our life. With a view to fulfill this vision, in 2000, in a small way I started an orphanage with 3 children. I put efforts for three years till 2003 to gradually develop the orphanage form rented premises to a building, with about 20 children being provided food, clothing, shelter and education.

 

After 2003, I gave this work to another friend and started providing free job oriented computer education to the poor unemployed youth and free English medium education at Ambattur to 40 poor and under privileged children since 2005 to 2013. 

 

As I met with an accident in 2013 and could not move for sometime, transferred all computers to another organisation viz. Aum Eduation Seva Trust at Tiruninravur.  Aum Education Seva Trust is providing free job oriented computer education, free tailoring course for destituted widows and village womenfolk to stand on their own feet, free tuitions for poor children, free medical camp, eye camp, dental camp for poor people in the remote villages of Tiruvallur District. 

 

For the past 10 years, every year we celebrate Ananda Deepavali where about 1000 underprivileged, orphan, desitituted, tribal children are provided with new clothes, sweets to celebrate deepavali like us.  

 

Personally I am doing in a small way free annadhanam on every saturday to about 30 old destitute people in an old age home near Ambattur and extend support in a small way for the education and feeding of children in an orphanage near Pakkam in Tiruvallur Dist.  

 

Besides this, I am providing free job placement service from my office-cum-home, for the needy youth. 

 

On spiritual side, I conduct free yoga, meditation & personality development session at my home and also in schools for students on "How to sharpen their memory and score 100% at studies  and for adults on "How to overcome stress and improve productivity and lead disease free peaceful life?"

 

My simple principle is Professionalism, Socialism, Spiritualism. So while doing my profession, besides engaging in social activity on a small way as above, I am presently more focused on spiritual practice and I am writing about 100 series of small books to highlight the spiritual values enshrished in various spiritual scriptures like Bagavad Gita, Upanishads, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Bagavatham and various puranas of Hinduism, Bible, Holy Quran, Buddhisim, Jainism, Sikhism, Judaism, Zorastriasm, Sufism.

 

  

5.       When did you start practice? What was the reason for starting practice?

 

        I started my practice in 2001. The reason for taking practice is that it gives us time to spend for engaging in above activities - spiritualism, socialism, professionalism.  

 

6.       How do you manage practice and charitable work?

 

        Interest and involvement enable to do these duties for spiritual-social-profession. I spend day time for profession, week ends for social work  and early morning for doing samadhi meditation  and evenings for sending spiritual messages for inner peace of humanity.  

 

7.       How does your family support you?

 

        My wife who is a housewife and she restricts herself in carrying on routine household duties. My daughter has completed B.Com and pursuing  CS Executive. My Son after passing +2 and CS foundation has written CS Executive both groups and expecting result.    

 

8.       Any message that you would like to share with CS members/ Students?

     My humble prayer to CS members is to advise their clients to involve in CSR activity in providing free education, job oriented training to needy youth in their respective area of operation.  Besides each member can form a group and share the job needs of their clients so that a needy youth can get a opening.  Students should imbibe in them good spiritual and social values to learn and share their efforts for the wellbeing of the society.

 

Interview: CS Mohan Kumar