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Hometown: Kaliyakkavilai
Marital Status: Married
Age: 62 Years
Some Lesser Known Facts About Tamilisai Soundararajan
- After completeing her post graduation at Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, she moved to Canada to completer her tyraining in sinology and FET therapy.
- After her training, Tamilisai Soundararajan pusued a career in teaching and an assistant professor at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai.
- Tamilisai Soundararajan was elected as a student leader during her graduation at Madras Medical College.
- She belongs to a political famil in Chennai and aspired to be a politician since a young age.
- She hosted a weekly programme on the Doordarshan channel for women known as Magalir Panchayat (Women’s Court) which aired for 5 years.
- She also conducted a programme on the Tamil channel Raj TV, which promoted public speaking skills for students and children.
- She has translated many medical and political articles from English to Tamil for major Tamil dailies and weeklies.
- She is also a main translator in BJP for the speeches of its popular national leaders during their visits to Tamil Nadu. She has translated speeches for leaders including LK Advani, Jaswant Singh, and Venkaiah Naidu.
- She is named as the “Sushma Swaraj of Tamil Nadu” by her Bharatiya Janata Party fellow politicians.
- Tamilisai enjoys reading and has a personal library which includes a collection of more than five thousand books.
- On 18 February 2021, she took an oath as the Lt. Governor of Puducherry. She took the oath in Tamil.
- In 2021, Tamilsai along with the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, designed a detailed action plan for creating a nutrition intervention program for the tribal communities in Telangana.
- In April 2023, a writ petition was file against Tamilisai Soundararajan in the supreme court for not being able to provide her assent for 10 bills that were passed seven months after the state legislature had passed them.
- Tamilisai Soundararajan responded through a tweet which read,
Dear @TelanganaCS Rajbhavan, is nearer than Delhi. Assuming office as CS you didn’t find time to visit Rahbhavan officially. No protocol!No courtesy even for a courtesy call. Friendly official visits & interactions would have been more helpful which you Don’t even intend.”
Dear @TelanganaCS Rajbhavan is nearer than Delhi. Assuming office as CS you didn’t find time to visit Rahbhavan officially. No protocol!No courtesy even for courtesy call. Friendly official visits & interactions would have been more helpfull which you Don’t even intend.
— Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan (@DrTamilisaiGuv) March 3, 2023