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Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School

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Established
  
1956

Phone
  
044 2498 0834

Founded
  
1956

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Colours
  
Green and white

Principal
  
Shoba Raman

Number of students
  
2,200

Type
  
Private school / Central Board of Secondary Education, India

Vice Principal
  
Uma Balasubramanian (high school), Vijaya Meenakshi (middle school), Sudha Suresh (primary) and Alamelu Krishnan (kindergarten)

Location
  
124, Royapettah High Road, Mylapore Chennai - 600004 India

Houses
  
Nilkant, Kanchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, and Kailash

Address
  
124, Royapettah High Road, Mylpore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600004

Motto
  
Saha Veeryam Karavavahai; (Sanskrit: Work Together)

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Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School is a school in India, in the southern city of Chennai. Founded in 1956 by M. Subbaraya Aiyar, R. S. Subbalakshmi and Padmini Chari, the school recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. It follows the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) pattern of education. With just a handful of boys in 1956, studying at the Mylapore Ladies' Club premises, the school now has well over 2000 students, 100 teachers and 35 support staff, three school buildings in the same location and a branch at Estancia.

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Notable alumni

  • International cricket players Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
  • Sadagopan Ramesh, actor and cricketer
  • Davis cup tennis player Ramesh Krishnan
  • Movie director Mani Ratnam
  • Film producer G. Venkateswaran
  • Cinematographer P C Sreeram
  • TV presenter Supriya
  • Computer game designer Krishnan Vidya Shankar
  • Founder of Univercell Sathish Babu
  • Movie Actor Mohan V. Raman
  • Flute artist Shashank
  • Carnatic vocal singer Sanjay Subrahmanyan
  • Carnatic vocalist K Gayathri
  • Cricketer Abhinav Mukund who plays for Tamil Nadu, IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings and India
  • Carnatic music violinist Charumathi Raghuraman
  • Carnatic classical musician Rithvik Raja
  • Sikkil Gurucharan, South Indian classical music singer
  • Anil Srinivasan, well-known pianist and composer
  • Movie actor Karthik Kumar
  • Kollywood director Venkat Prabhu
  • Actor Vikram Prabhu
  • Sivaram Ambikasaran, Professor at Indian Institute of Science
  • Standup comedian, Aravind SA
  • Entrepreneur, hedge fund manager and top ranked former tennis player who represented Tamil Nadu and India, Bhargav Sri Prakash

    • Motto

    The motto of Vidya Mandir is "Saha Veeryam Karavavahai" which means "Let the student and teacher perform great acts of strength together".

    References

    Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School Wikipedia
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