Blast from the Past..Vengrai Parthasarathy

JOINT PRIZE FOR BHEL FAMILY  (1979)

 

The Tiruchi Unit of BHEL has a House Magazine titled ‘Boiler Plant & You’

And I was the Editor of the Hyderabad House Magazine titled  PEP NEWS,

The PEP standing for Power Equipment Plant. The Tiruchi Unit’s mag

carried the following news feature in  April 1979:

 

“  It is a matter of pride that in the All IndiaFamily Welfare Slogan contest the

First Prize has been shared by two members of the BHEL family. Mr.J.Swami-

Nathan, Design Assistant of our plant coined the slogan DELAY THE FIRST,

SPACE THE SECOND AND STOP THE THIRD. The joint-winner is

Mrs Rukmini Parthasarathy, Principal of the Gitanjali school,Ramachandra-

 Puram, Hyderabad.Her slogan read; LET’S HAVE TWO, THE FIRST AND

THE LAST. Mrs. Parthasarathy is the wife of Mr.V.V. Parthasarathy ,Public

Relations,Each of the two winners has received a cash prize of Rs.500/-.As

Many as 40,000 entries were received and the two of the best  were naturally

From BHEL

 

About Vengrai Parthasarathy

A profile of Vengrai Parthasarathy (from Sahitya Akademi): Mr.V.V. Parthasarathy (Vengrai) the author is 88+ years old.He graduated from the Madras University and stayed on to complete his Law degree in the same Uiversity. Again in that University, he did a two-year course in International Law and Constitutional Law under late Professor C.H.Alexandrowicz. He had also done a course in Mass Communitations . Mr. Parthasarathy has had his professional career in the Public Relations, all of them in Public sectors like Indian Airlines, State Trading Corporation,Bharat Electronics and lastly in the Bharat Heavy Electricals, Hyderabad from which he retired. Over the years Mr. Parthasarathy has published several rticles in a variety pf Dailies and Periodicals, including The Hindu, The Statesman,The Hindustan Times, the Indian Express and The Indian Year Book Of International Affairs.Over a hundred of them have been embedded in the Vengrai.com Mr. Parthasarathy has published two books One titled THIRUPPAVAI published by the Ramakrishna Mission and a book titled SELECT HYMNS FROM THE DIVYA PRAPANTHAM published by the renowned Sahitya Akademi. He is now a retired Author who has settled down in USA with his two children, son VijayParthasarathy married to Hema, ( a Dentist) and daughter Rohini married to Partha Mandayam, a Computer Scientist, —besides grandchildren.

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