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Continuing Our Story about Namma MADRAS The Great Men and Women Who Formed our City OLCOTT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, BESANTNAGAR Colonel Henry Steel OLCOTT, was born in the year 1832, in New Jersey USA. After graduation, he was a military officer, lawyer, journalist and later in 1864 became a spiritualist. He and Helena Blavatsky (12/8/1831 - 8/5/1891), a Russian spiritualist joined together to form the Theosophical Society of USA in 1875. He was the first president and she was its Secretary. They left USA in 1878 for India to establish the Theosophical Society at ADYAR, Madras. He was a Buddhist and he worked in Sri Lanka to revive Buddhism. On May 19, 1880, he and Blavatsky were formally acknowledged as Buddhists at Galle in Sri Lanka. Helena died in London in 1891, but Olcott pursued the work with the Theosophical Society at Adyar. Madame Annie Besant joined him in this pursuit and after Olcott's death in February 1907, Annie Besant took over as its president and continued the ...

Namma Madras Madras Story Retold and Remembered. THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES OF MYLAPORE. Thirukattupalli is a small village in Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu. It boasts of an ancient history, mentoned in Ponniyin Selvan book by Kalki. About 2.5 km from this village is PAZHAMANERI another small village. In this village there lived one family of Sundaram Iyer and his wife Subbalakshmi Ammal. On 7th February 1864, a son was born to them and was named Sivaswami. He had his early schooling in nearby schools and studied in different colleges and obtained his Law degree.  He was a shining lawyer throughout and finally he became the Advocate General of Madras Presidency .He was elected to the Senate of Madras University and the vice chancellor of the Madras University, then the VC of Banaras Hindu University. He was a Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras. He was a keen educationist, in particular of Girls' education. He wanted to uplift girls education. ...