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Late Dr. Verghese Kurien : Founder Of Amul & Father of white revolution

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Dr Verghese Kurien who had started his life from a garage later helped founder chairman of Amul Dairy Tribhuvandas Patel who was struggling to run Amul Dairy that was set up with inspiration of Iron Man of India Sardar Patel. It was from Amul Dairy that Dr Kurien started his stint with the co-operative sector. <br />
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Anand which Kurien turned into his 'home town' after serving the co-operative sector for over five decades is now reputed as milk capital of the country. Last year, milk city had celebrated Kurien's 90th birthday by organizing a mega event on November 26.<br />
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Verghese Kurien was an Indian engineer and businessman, best known for creating the Amul dairy-food brand and playing a central role in Operation Flood<span style="white-space: nowrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br /><b>Verghese Kurien</b> (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012) was an Indian engineer and businessman, best known for creating the Amul dairy-food brand and playing a central role in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flood">Operation Flood</a>.<br /><br /><br />As the founding chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), Kurien was responsible for the creation and success of Amul brand of dairy products. A key achievement at Amul was the invention of milk powder processed from buffalo's milk (abundant in India), as opposed to that made from cow-milk.<br /><br /><br />His achievements with the GCMMF led Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri to appoint him founder-chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1965, to replicate Amul's successes on a nationwide scale. A few years later, the NDDB under Kurien launched Operation Flood (or the White Revolution)—the largest dairy development program in the world. Operation Flood helped India become the world's largest milk producer; in 2010–11, India's contribution was close to 17 percent of the global production.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verghese_Kurien#cite_note-hindustant-1">[2]</a><br /><br /><br />Hailed as the "Milkman of India" and the "Father of the White Revolution", Kurien had won several awards including the Padma Vibhushan (India's second-highest civilian honour), the World Food Prize and the Magsaysay Award.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br />Verghese Kurien was born on 26 November 1921 in Calicut, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Presidency">Madras Presidency</a>, British India (now Kozhikode, Kerala). His father was a civil surgeon in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin">Cochin</a>. He graduated in Physics from Loyola College, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras">Madras</a> in 1940 and then did B.E. (mechanical engineering) from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Engineering,_Guindy">College of Engineering, Guindy</a> (then the University of Madras). After completing his degree, he joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Steel">Tata Steel</a> Technical Institute, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamshedpur">Jamshedpur</a> from where he graduated in 1946. He then went to the United States on a government scholarship to earn his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science">Master of Science</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_engineering">metallurgical engineering</a> (with distinction) from Michigan State University.<br /><br /><br />Kurien belongs to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Malabar_Nasrani">Syrian Christian</a> community of India.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verghese_Kurien#cite_note-Tridip-2">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verghese_Kurien#cite_note-Khushwant-3">[4]</a> He married his neighbor's daughter Molly. He is survived by his wife, one daughter Nirmala Kurien and a grandson, Siddharth. Kurien died on 9 September 2012 after a brief spell of illness in Gujarat, India. He was 90.</span><br />
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Kurien arrived on 13 May 1949 on a Government of India deputation at the Government Research Creamery, Anand. Since then he built the dairy development cooperative model into one of the largest and most successful institutions in India. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visited Anand to inaugurate Amul"factory" and he embraced Kurien for his groundbreaking work. The Amul pattern of cooperatives became so successful, that in 1965 Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, created the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to replicate the program on a nationwide basis citing Kurien's "extraordinary and dynamic leadership" upon naming him chairman.<br />
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Kurien also set up GCMMF in 1973 to sell the products produced by the dairies. Today GCMMF sells Amul products not only in India but also overseas. He quit the post of GCMMF Chairman in 2006 following disagreements with GCMMF management.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verghese_Kurien#cite_note-4">[5]</a><br />
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Kurien, played a key role in many other organizations, ranging from chairing the Viksit Bharat Foundation, a body set up by the President of India, to chairman of the Board of Governors of Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). Kurien was mentioned by the Ashoka Foundation as one of the eminent present Day Social Entrepreneurs. Kurien's life story is chronicled in his memoir I Too Had a Dream.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verghese_Kurien#cite_note-5">[6]</a><br />
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Kurien and his team were pioneers in inventing the process of making milk powder and condensed milk from buffalo's milk instead of cow's milk. This was the reason Amul became so successful and competed well against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestle">Nestle</a> who only used cow milk to make powder and condensed milk. In India, buffalo milk is the main raw material unlike Europe where cow milk is abundant.<br />
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Late Dr. Verghese Kurien : Founder Of Amul & Father of white revolution

Dr Verghese Kurien who had started his life from a garage later helped founder chairman of Amul Dairy Tribhuvandas Patel who was struggl...

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born media mogul, is the head of a $50 billion empire which spreads from the United States to Australia. The 81-year-old is chief executive of News Corp, a global media company that controls properties from Britain's Sun newspaper to America's Fox News Channel and the Wall Street Journal.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Mr Murdoch has four children from his previous two marriages: Lachlan, Prudence, James and Elisabeth. He is currently married to Chinese-born Wendi Deng and has two daughters with her: Grace and Chloe.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Born in 1931, Mr Murdoch began his career at an age of 22 when he inherited from his father one of Australia's leading media companies, News Limited. Until the formation of News Corp, News Limited was the holding company for Mr Murdoch. He then expanded his media business and took London by storm in the 1960s before moving to New York on his quest to become the world's most powerful media tycoon.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Mr Murdoch began building his power in Britain in the 1980s by adding The Times and The Sunday Times to his stable of media properties, including The Sun and the News of the World, the tabloid at the centre of the illegal phone hacking scandal.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">His media empire came under fire last July from many sides in Britain after reports of phone and computer hacking in which journalists intercepted the voicemails of celebrities and crime victims, and now faces allegations that police officers were also paid for information that was used in newspaper reports. The allegations and subsequent enquiries came at a time when the media mogul was looking to close the biggest deal in Britain last year - takeover of the successful pay-TV group BSkyB.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The revelations convulsed Mr Murdoch's media empire, exposed the close ties between the upper echelons of Britain's establishment and provoked a wave of public anger. His son, James Murdoch, resigned as BSkyB Chairman last month but remains on the board.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After long denying that phone-hacking was institutionalised at the News of the World, the tabloid eventually admitted last year to a probe panel that it had hacked into the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and British war dead as well as politicians and celebrities in its search for ever more-sensational front-page stories. Mr Murdoch shuttered the News of the World in July.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">An enquiry by the British Parliament has criticised News Corp for showing "wilful blindness" about the scale of phone-hacking. Today, the lawmakers even said he was unfit to lead a global media empire because he has turned a blind eye to phone hacking.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Mr Murdoch's influence over British prime ministers goes back decades: Tony Blair was godfather to one of his daughters, Gordon Brown was a personal friend of the Australian-born businessman and James Cameron employed as his personal spokesman a former Murdoch editor who was himself implicated in the hacking scandal.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">A naturalised US citizen with extensive media properties in Australia as well, Mr Murdoch has contributed politically to both US Republicans and Democrats but is associated with a conservative political slant. In the US, he controls the New York Post and Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, along with book publishing. He also controls a huge slice of Hollywood.</span></div>

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Narayanaswami Srinivasan, a 67-year-old industrialist from Chennai, heads the world's richest cricket body, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).  BCCI Secretary till September 2011 and before that a BCCI Treasurer, he became the body's 30th President in September 2011 after Shashank Manohar's term ended.  Mr Srinivasan's term as President extends till 2014.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">  </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He owns the India Cements Ltd (ICL), a major corporate entity in the south, with a turnover of around </span><span class="rupee" style="background-color: white; font-family: RupeeForadianRegular; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">R<span style="left: -9999em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -9999em;">s.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> 3,500 crores. His company - founded by his father in 1946 - sponsors several local clubs in Chennai and Hyderabad.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In 2008, during the first auction for IPL teams in India, Mr Srinivasan's company bought the Chennai franchise for 91 million dollars or </span><span class="rupee" style="background-color: white; font-family: RupeeForadianRegular; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">R<span style="left: -9999em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -9999em;">s.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> 480 crore.  </span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The Chennai Super Kings is captained by national team captain MS Dhoni, who was bought for 1.5 million dollars or </span><span class="rupee" style="background-color: white; font-family: RupeeForadianRegular; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">R<span style="left: -9999em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -9999em;">s.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> 8 crore and coached by Stephen Fleming. Critics have said there's a conflict of interest in the head of the BCCI owning an IPL team. But Mr Srinivasan has always maintained that it is India Cements that holds the ownership rights to the franchise and not him - and that he is just a stakeholder. Mr Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath - from the AVM family of film producers - is the franchise owner of the CSK. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">It is the most successful team in the IPL league so far. The team has won the IPL title twice in succession (2010 and 2011) and reached the knock-out stages every season. His team was rated as the 'most valuable team' in the Indian Premier League in 2010-2011, with an estimated brand value of 48.4 million dollars or </span><span class="rupee" style="background-color: white; font-family: RupeeForadianRegular; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">R<span style="left: -9999em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -9999em;">s.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">224 crores, making it the most valuable franchise.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He's married to Chitra Srinivasan, a director at ICL and father to Rupa - an ICL director herself - and son Ashwin. His estranged brother N Ramachandran is the head of the Tamil Nadu Squash  Rackets Association.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Mr Srinivasan did his post-graduation in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and played cricket, tennis and hockey during his days at Loyola College, Chennai. As President of the Tamil Nadu Golf Federation, he's an avid golfer himself. He says he once had an enviable single digit handicap in golf. But he now suffers a handicap of 10 -in jest, he blamed this on the BCCI in an interview to NDTV's Walk the Talk. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">A Tamil Nadu cricket insider describes Mr Srinivasan to a cricket website as "a streetfighter who will do anything to win. Those on his wrong side are neither forgiven nor forgotten, but loyalists are looked after."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Srini, as he's popularly called in his circles, was Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) Vice-President in 1998 under AC Muthiah. Later as President of TNCA, he scrapped the fixed tenure of eight years. As President of TNCA since 2002, he'd attend BCCI meetings, but chose, some say deliberately, to maintain a relatively low profile. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Mr Srinivasan is also known as a superstitious man. He is said to have restored a Ganesh temple outside Chepauk stadium in Chennai because he believed it watched over his TNCA.</span>
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