M.K. Kovaimani

Professor, Dr. M. K. Kovaimani (Picture Credit: Website of Dr. M. Elangovan: https://muelangovan.blogspot.com/)

Kovaimani

M. K. Kovaimani (Born: June 03, 1963) Professor of Tamil, Researcher, Writer, Publisher, Speaker. He worked as the Associate Professor and Head of the Manuscriptology Department at the Tamil University, Thanjavur. He wrote and published poetry, researched manuscripts on multiple fields. He digitized more than 75% of the manuscripts in the Tamil University. Government of Tamilnadu awarded him for his book on manuscriptology.

Kovaimani with his wife

Birth & Education

M. K. Kovaimani was bord on June 03, 1963, in Podaturpet, Thiruvallur District, to M. K. Kothanda Mudaliar and Theivanaiyammal. His given name was Gopal and it was changed when he was admitted to school. He studied at Podaturpet Government School.

He completed his bachelors degree in Chemistry at Presidency college, Chennai. He obtained post graduate degree in Tamil at Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai. He received Master of Philosophy degree through his research on Amudhabharathi's poetry. He researched on "Naadi Maruthuvam" and obtained Diplomo from International Institute of Tamil Studies. He studied Shaiva Siddhanta and received Diplomo from Thiruvaduthurai Adheenam. He received diplomo in computer science from Tamil University.

He obtained PhD from Tamil University, Thanjavur, through his research on "Manuscripts published through magazines".

Educational Work

M. K. Kovaimani started his career in 1989 as Project assistant at Tamil University, Thanjavur. After an year of tenure as Project assistant, he worked as Research Assistant until 1992 (தொகுப்பு ஊதியம் for crowdfund?). From 1992 to 2007, he was a full time Research Assistant. He was an Assistant Professor from 2007-2015, Associate Professor from 2015 to 2023. He retired as a Professor.

He wrote five textbooks for diplomo courses and certificate courses for distant education programmes offered by Tamil University.He wrote a book, "Introduction to Tamil Manuscriptology", for The Open University of Sri Lanka. He wrote four textbooks for undergraduate and masters degrees on Tamil for the Directorate of Distance Education, Alagappa University, Karaikkudi.

He introduced a workshop on reading Tamil Palm-leaf manuscripts within 2 hours of training for Research students and enthusiasts. He has conducted such workshops for more than 70 universities and collages. He conducted online workshop on reading palm-leaf manuscripts and Manuscriptology, named 'Vaanga, Suvadi Padikkalam’, for 33 weeks for தமிழ்நாடு அரசு சுவடிகள் பாதுகாப்புக் குழுமம்.

Under the guidance of Dr. Kovaimani, 43 students obtained Master of Philosophy and 9 students obtained Doctor of Philosophy.

Dr. M. K. Kovaimani Books (Picture Credit: Website of Dr. M. Elangovan: https://muelangovan.blogspot.com/)

Literary Life

M. K. Kovaimani has written more than 250 research articles on several fields including Manuscriptology and Computer Science. He was involved in field work and collected palf-leaf manuscripts. He wrote books that span genres like poetry, essays, short tories, plays, novels, travlogue. He has written more than 90 books. He has appeared on Chennai television and has spoken about Manuscriptology in Malasian radio.

He wrote several text books for Distance Education. He created video courses for Alagappa University (Karaikkudi) and Tamil University (Thanjavur). Tamil Universithy of Thanjavur has plans to release more than 10 books written by M. K. Kovaimani. He is known for digitizing more than 75% of the manuscripts in the Tamil University.

Kovaimani honored

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