Damal Kandalai Srinivasan
Damal Kandalai Srinivasan (born 1933) is an Indian social worker, business person, philanthropist and the co-founder of Hindu Mission Hospital, Chennai. He is also the secretary of Valluvar Gurukulam, an educational institution founded in 1940 for the children of the refugees from Burma, which has since grown to the present-day Valluvar Gurukulam Higher Secondary School. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to society. Biography D. K. Srinivasan, born on 7 October 1933 in Kanchipuram, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to D. K. Varadachari, a locally known lawyer, graduated in economics from Loyola College, Chennai after which he secured his master's degree in business management (MBA) from the University of Madras. Subsequently, instead of opting for a job, he founded his own business in petroleum and FMCG sectors. Later, he is known to have abandoned his business for social service and, in December 1982, started a philanthropic venture in a shed in Tambaram, for providing medical assistance to people with limited financial means. The venture, over the years, has grown to become the present-day Hindu Mission Hospital, a 220-bedded healthcare facility, where he continues to