Tamil Heritage Trust
presents
"Iravatham Mahadevan’s contributions"
(ஐராவதம் மகாதேவனின் பங்களிப்புகள்)
a talk by MV Bhaskar
on 2nd February 2019, Saturday 5:30 PM at Arkay Convention Center,
146/3 R.H.Road, OMS Lakshana (Above Shah Electronics), Mylapore, Chennai
About the topic:
Iravatham
Mahadevan, a multi-faceted personality died at the age of 88 in
November 2018. He was an IAS officer and after his retirement edited the
popular Dinamani newspaper for a few years. But he is known for his
contributions to two major areas of research. He was the pioneer in
reading early Tamil inscriptions in the Brahmi script. His magnum opus,
‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ puts together all the known Brahmi Tamil
epigraphs in one place and establishes the methodology to be followed in
interpreting them. Equally important is his work in the field of
interpreting the Indus seals. Starting from building a complete
concordance of all the known symbols of the Indus seals, Iravatham
Mahadevan went about unravelling what those symbols meant. To this day
no one has successfully deciphered the Indus symbols, but Iravatham
Mahadevan’s work may go a long way in helping the researchers.
The
talk will cover the two major areas of Mahadevan’s research, Tamil
epigraphy and Indus decipherment. In addition to describing the work
done by Mahadevan, the talk will try to unravel Mahadevan’s research
methodology.
About the speaker:
MV
Bhaskar is a CEO of a Chennai based AuthorCafe. His passion is in the
space of conservation and documentation of art. He worked as a
consultant and archivist for creating a digital archive of the murals of
temples in Tamil Nadu. He had also worked as the Project Director for
constructing a curated archive of all the Tamil Brahmi inscriptions
identified and included by Iravatham Mahadevan in his book. In the
process, he started working closely with Mahadevan and collaborated with
him on a series of papers on the Indus script. He is the editor of the
‘Collected Papers on the Indus Script’ by Iravatham Mahadevan, a
forthcoming publication.
MV
Bhaskar had presented a talk on “Preservation and Documentation of
Temple Murals” for the Tamil Heritage Trust, in September 2012.
Entry for the event is absolutely FREE; No registration required. The event will also be available on LIVE. For further details, please visit http://www.tamilheritage.in & https://www.facebook.com/TamilHeritageTrust.