Dear Professional Colleagues, Herewith I have forwarded a mail with the details of an extraordinary personality, who worked as* Librarian,* donated entire earnings of 30 years service including retirement benefits in lacs and US award (Man of the Millennium) money of Rs. 30 crores for the needy. Most appreciable fact is that he worked in hotel for his livelihood without touching his salary. Mr. Rajanikanth, the popular cine idol adopted him as his father. Let us be proud of him that he served as Librarian. I don't know if this posting was already done through Lis-forum. Even then it is worthwhile item to be repeated. Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Visiting Professor and Library Adviser University of Mysore ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ramesha M H <ramesha.mh@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:32 PM Subject: (KSWF-NIRATANKA) Man of the Millennium..... To: niratanka_socialwork <niratanka_socialwork@googlegroups.com> DO YOU KNOW Mr. Kalyana sundaram ? *Man of the Millennium.....* *Good Morning dear all* [image: Description: http://www.tamilvanan.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/palam-kalyanasundaram.jpg]<https://creator.zoho.com/teameverest/chennai-everest-visits/#Form:Everest_6> *Mr.Kalayanasundaram worked as a Librarian for 30 years. Every month in his 30 year experience(service), he donated his entire salary to help the needy. He worked as a server in a hotel to meet his needs. He donated even his pension amount of about ten lakh rupees to the needy.* * * *He is the first person in the world to spend the entire earnings for a social cause. In recognition to his service, the American government honoured him with the ‘Man of the Millennium’ award. He received a sum of Rs 30 crores as part of this award which he distributed entirely for the needy as usual.* * * *Moved by his passion to help others, Super Star Rajinikanth adopted him as his father. He still stays as a bachelor and dedicated his entire life for serving the society. You can read more about him here<http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/08/22/stories/2004082209260200.htm> .* *See the attachment also.* * * *All our Politicians, Film stars, Business magnets, cricketers Press and we all Indians should be PROUD and also should be ashamed of ourselves. American Government has honored him but we Indians even don't know that such a personality exist amongst us.* * * *Atleast have the courtesy to pass this on and on till the whole world comes to know about this Great Good **Samaritan.* * * *Hat's off Kalayanasundaram.. We Indians are extremely proud of you and proudly say "THIS HAPPENS ONLY IN INDIA"* *"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."* * * [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] -- Regards *MH Ramesha MSW, PGDELT* NIRATANKA *Editor, Samaja Karyada Hejjegalu,* *PH 9980066890* * https://groups.google.com/group/niratanka_socialwork?hl=en http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1343514822 http://twitter.com/rameshaniratank http://socialwork-samajkaryadahejjegalu.blogspot.in/ http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?locale=en_US&goback=%2Enmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1&trk=spm_pic http://socialworkniratanka.wordpress.com/ Website www.niratanka.org * * * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " Professional Socialworkers' Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to niratanka_socialwork@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to niratanka_socialwork+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/niratanka_socialwork?hl=en. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.