V. C. Kulandaiswamy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian writer and academic
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Place of Birth: Karur district, Tamil Nadu, India
About V. C. Kulandaiswamy
- V C Kulandaiswamy (14 July 1929 – 10 December 2016) was an Indian academic and author.
- He obtained his Master of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur and obtained a Ph.D.
- in hydrology and water resources from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States).Kulandaiswamy created an eponymous mathematical model for the rainfall-runoff relationship based on a general equation developed by him.
- Kulandaiswamy was a member of the UNESCO planning group (1978) for the preparation of the second six-year plan (1981–86) of the International Hydraulic Programme (IHP).
- He has authored more than 60 research reports and papers in the field of hydrology.
- He has authored six volumes of poems and seven of prose essays which earned him the Thiruvalluvar Award by Tamil Nadu government in 1999.
- He has received the Padma Bhushan (2002) and Padma Shri (1992), awarded by the president of India.He worked for reform of Tamil script to make learning Tamil easier.
- He won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1988) for his book Vaazhum Valluvam.
- He died on 10 December 2016 after a short illness.
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