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Pandit Duraiswami Aiyangar and his wife Kanakavalli had six children. Their family carries his work forward today through the Vaidyacharya Trust. Click a name to see that person’s publications.

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1888 – 1956

Pandit Duraiswami Aiyangar

Physician, scholar, translator and founder of the journal Vaidya Kalanidhi.

Publications

No publications listed yet.

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Wife

Kanakavalli

Of the Echambadi family, Tiruvallur.

Publications

No publications listed yet.

Eldest son · b. 1922

M.D. Vijayaraghavan

Publications

No publications listed yet.

Wife

Vimala Ragavan

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No publications listed yet.

Vimala’s father

Dr. Alagasingam Vasudevan

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No publications listed yet.

Vimala’s mother

Singari Ammal

Publications

No publications listed yet.

Granddaughter

Vanaja Ragavan

Publications

1 publication

1998

Grandson · Trustee

Vivek Ragavan

Co-founder of the Vaidyacharya Trust.

Publications

1 publication

1977

  • A study of the integrated optic monochromatorM.S. thesis, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University

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About Vivek

Wife

Nilima Ragavan

Neonatologist and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford; Neonatal Outreach Medical Director for Stanford Children’s Health and founder of Teach to Heal.

Publications

4 publications

2026

  • Implementing aEEG in a Level II NICU: Enhancing Neurologic Outcomes in a Community-Based SettingPediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Boston (conference abstract 1000.1), with X. M. Fei and J. Granger

2022

2019

1999

In the news

Stanford profile

Nilima’s father

Ramnarayan Manudhane

Patents

Great-granddaughter

Maya Ragavan

Pediatrician and health services researcher at the University of Pittsburgh.

Publications

132 publications · Peer-reviewed papers indexed in PubMed, plus conference abstracts, book chapters and other articles from Crossref, October 2026.

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Great-granddaughter

Meera Ragavan

Oncologist and health services researcher at Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

Publications

57 publications · Peer-reviewed papers indexed in PubMed, and conference abstracts from Crossref, October 2026.

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Great-grandson

Neil Ragavan

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No publications listed yet.

Third child

Vaijayanti

She later recounted how her father learned languages by deciphering posters on walls.

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No publications listed yet.

Granddaughter · Trustee

Malavika Muralidharan

Named after the heroine of Kalidasa’s Malavika Agnimitram, which her grandfather was translating when she was born.

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No publications listed yet.

About Malavika

Granddaughter

Chandrika

Edited the Trust’s writing about her grandfather.

Publications

6 publications

2017

2011

2008

2006

Undated

  • Exercises in Education to CreativityBook · Don Bosco’s Tej Prasarini, Mumbai (her first book)
  • NurtureMonthly magazine of reading for children, which she brought out for seven years
Great-granddaughter

Dharini Bhaskar

Novelist and publisher. Associate Publisher, Literary, at HarperCollins India. She has also written for Hindu BusinessLine, Mint Lounge, Firstpost, Arré and Vogue.

Publications

21 publications · Books, stories and articles found online, October 2026.

2025

  • The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories (short story in the anthology)Fourth Estate / HarperCollins India

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2019

Undated

  • Day’s End Stories (short story in the anthology)Anthology

All her Free Press Journal columns

Duraiswami Aiyangar’s father

M. Vijaya­raghavachari

Publications

No publications listed yet.

Singari Ammal’s father

P.T. Srinivasa Iyengar

Historian, linguist and educationist (1863–1931). Principal of A.V.N. College, Visakhapatnam, and later Reader in Indian History and Archaeology at the University of Madras.

Publications

14 publications

1942

1931

  • Bhoja RajaBook · Methodist Publishing House

1929

  • History of the Tamils from the Earliest Times to 600 A.D.Book
  • A Short History of IndiaBook, with John Willatt · Oxford University Press

1926

  • The Stone Age in IndiaBook · Government Press, Madras

1912

1911

  • Longman’s Arithmetic (Arithmethikkulu)Textbook in modern Telugu · Longmans

1909

  • Outlines of Indian PhilosophyBook · Theosophical Publishing House (Urdu translation, Osmania University, 1932)
  • Death or Life: A Plea for the VernacularsBook

Undated

  • Pre-Aryan Tamil CultureBook (reprinted by Asian Educational Services, 1985)
  • First Steps in TamilBook, with S. G. Daniel
  • Hindudesa CaritraHistory of India in Telugu · Macmillan