BSc (Civil Eng.) FCIOB FaPS FCABE TechIOSH AssocRICS – Senior Construction Design Management Consultant and Founder and Patron of Thamizhavai, London Building Safety Regulator (BSR) Scheme Registered Class 1 Building Safety Officer under supervision CABE Certified Fire Safety Engineering Practitioner A well-recognised Tamil Poet, Playwright, Play Director and Producer, Researcher and Author Founder and Patron
Introduction: This is a profile of Mr Nallathamby Sivananthan [known as Pulavar Siva] whose respected contributions to the fields of Poetic Creativity in many aspects of personal, business and family life in Tamil, in Sri Lanka and In the UK have been carried out for more than six and a half decades. Pulavar Siva is
Siva was educated in Sri Lanka from where, after a brief time working as a teacher of Science, Mathematics and Tamil Language, he emigrated to the United Kingdom with the intention of following his higher studies in Civil Engineering.He was sponsored by his elder brother, Mr M N Vivekananthan, who was at that time the
His works on the creation of dance dramas are well known among the Tamil community, both in the UK and overseas. Perhaps Siva’s biggest passion is with his commitment to promote and celebrate traditional folk arts including ‘Kooththu’, Villupattu’, Dance Dramas and adaptation of Indian classics. Pulavar Sivanathan has spent a great deal of
Siva, the youngest son of a renowned and highly respected poet, his father died when he was only eighteen months old and thus Pulavar Siva began his life’s journey by teaching himself and immersing in the Tamil Culture and literature from an early age, influenced by his father’s many poetic works. Although his mother, Thangaratnam