Ponneelan [SEP] country of citizenship
Ponneelan
Ponneelan (, born 1940 at Manikatti Pottal, Kanyakumari district) is the pen name of Kandeswara Bhaktavatsalan, a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India. He is a Marxist and was influenced by Tamil Communist leader P. Jeevanandham in his younger days. He became a teacher and retired as the deputy director of school education for Tamil Nadu. He won the 1994 Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil his novel "Pudhiya Dharisanangal". He is currently the state president of the Tamil literary organisation "Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumandram"
Medical Officer, R.C.N. Hospital, Cornwallis, NS, Apr., 1955 to Sep., 1956.
Medical Officer, R.C.N. Hospital, Halifax, NS, Sep., 1956 to June, 1957.
Rank on discharge: Surgeon Lieutenant Commander.
Awards.
- In 2000 Dr. Halpern was given the Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association.
- In 2003 he received the Medical Society State of New York's President's Citizenship Award.
- In 2004 he received the William C. Menninger Memorial Award for