Dr. Jayanthasri Balakrishnan, is a public speaker and a retired Professor of English, from

PSG College of Arts and Science PSG College of Arts and Science (PSG CAS) is a College of Arts and Sciences in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1947 by G. R. Damodaran. It was ranked 11th among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framewor ...

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, Tamil Nadu.

Education

Dr. Jayanthasri Balakrishnan as an Educationalist strongly believes in bringing about attitudinal improvement and social development through value based education. Helping people realize their potential and uniqueness is her prime concern which adds depth, dimension and difference to her motivational talk. Dr. Jayanthasri Balakrishnan is a former Professor and Reader of English in PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, with 35 years of teaching experience. She is a double doctorate, having been awarded two Ph.D. Degrees, one in English by the

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in 1998, and the second one in Tamil by

Bharathiar University Bharathiar University is a public state university in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Named after Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, the university was established in February 1982 under the provision of Bharathiar University Act, 1981 (Act 1 of 1 ...

, Coimbatore in 2009. She also holds a master's degree in education from the

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. She is a registered Guide of Bharathiar University for Ph.D. for both English and Tamil. She did her research in the ‘English renderings of Kuṟuntokai’, which deals with the problems of translating the Tamil text

Kuṟuntokai Kuṟuntokai (, meaning ''the short-collection'') is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the second of the Eight Anthologies (''Ettuthokai'') in the Sangam literature. The collection belongs to the ''akam'' (love) category, and each ...

. For her doctorate in Tamil, she submitted her thesis on Tamil writer Jayakanthan's novellas.

Career

She is a Resource Person of the UGC for various Indian Universities. She is an educationalist, writer, poet, feminist and a translator and has widely varying interests including literary theory, theatre and drama. She has been lauded by‘

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’ in ‘The Personality of the week’ for her distinct thoughts on education. Apart from taking part in several television programs, she also presents a program named ''Manadhil urudhi vendum'' in

Kalaignar TV Kalaignar TV is a Tamil-language general entertainment pay television channel based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The channel was launched on 15 September 2007 as Kalaignar, and is named after former Chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidh ...

Awards

Having worked as the Chief Editor in

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she was able to bring an updated translated version of Tamil vintage classic,‘Kuṟuntokai’ in English. She worked as the Sub-editor of the Tamil Magazine ''Disaigal'' for a short span of time. In an open competition held by the popular Tamil magazine

Ananda Vikatan ''Ananda Vikatan'' is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India. History ''Ananda Vikatan'' was started by Late Pudhoor Vaidyanadhaiyar in February 1926 as a monthly publication. The issue for December 1927 was not publishe ...

, she won ‘The Best short story writer award’ from the hands of Tamil writer Sujatha. She has delivered many talks on writer Jayakanthan. She has also published her short story collection in the name of "''Mazhaivil Manidhargal''" (Men of Rainbows) and a collection of essays named "''Mouna Iraichal''". As a translator, she has translated select poems of

Ainkurunuru Ainkurunuru ( meaning ''five hundred short poems'') is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the third of the Eight Anthologies (''Ettuthokai'') in the Sangam literature. It is divided into five groups of 100 short stanzas of 3 to 6 ...

and some of the works of Tamil writers such as Bharathi,

Kalyanji Kalyanji Virji Shah (30 June 1928 – 24 August 2000) was the ''Kalyanji'' of the Kalyanji-Anandji duo. He and his brother Anandji Virji Shah have been famous Indian film musicians, and won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, f ...

and so. The translation of Tamil poet Sirpi Balasubramaniam's ‘Poojiyangalin Sangili’ is published as ‘The Chain of Absolutes’.

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