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{{Infobox person<br />
|name = Namakkal V. Ramalingam <br />
|image =Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai 1989 stamp of India.jpg<br />
|caption =Pillai on a 1989 stamp of India<br />
|other_names = Namakkal Kavignar<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1888|10|19}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Namakkal]], [[Madras Presidency]]<br />
[[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1972|08|24|1888|10|19}}<br />
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'''Venkatarama Ramalingam''', or V. Ramalingam Pillai (19 October 1888 – 24 August 1972),<ref name=Biography>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030219150658/http://www.freeindia.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=464 Namakkal Kavignar]. freeindia.org</ref><ref name=Details>[http://www.nkrgacw.org/ About the College]. Nkrgacw.org. Retrieved on 7 December 2018.</ref> was a Tamil poet from [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]] and independence fighter. He is well known for his poems about independence. He had 7 siblings apart from himself<br />
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The poem<br />
"கத்தியின்றி ரத்தமின்றி<br />
யுத்தமொன்று வருகுது<br />
சத்தியத்தின் நித்தியத்தை<br />
நம்பும்யாரும் சேருவீர்..."<ref name=Poem>[http://www.tamilnation.org/hundredtamils/nammakal.htm Poem]. Tamilnation.org. Retrieved on 7 December 2018.</ref> was very famous poem among freedom fighters. The freedom fighters in Tamil Nadu.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
V. Ramalingam Pillai, popularly known as Namakkal Kavignar, was born on 19 October 1888 at [[Mohanur]], Namakkal District in Tamil Nadu to Venkataraman and Ammaniammaal. His father was working in police department at Mohanur and his mother was a pious lady. He was the eighth child of his parents. Ramalingam had his school educations in Namakkal and [[Coimbatore]]. He did his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in 1909, from Bishop Heber College at [[Trichy]].<br />
Initially he worked as a [[clerk (position)|clerk]] at Namakkal Tahsildar's office and later worked as a primary school teacher.<ref name=Biography/><br />
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==Nationalist==<br />
He wrote hundreds of poems with patriotic fervor. He also participated in the [[Salt Satyagraha]] against [[United Kingdom|British]] government in 1930 and went to jail for one year.<ref name=Details/><br />
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==Awards==<br />
He received the "[[Padmabhushan]]" award in 1971 from Indian Government.<ref name=Biography/><br />
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[[Category:1888 births]]<br />
[[Category:1972 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education]]<br />
[[Category:Tirukkural commentators]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male poets]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Tamil Nadu]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Tamil Nadu]]<br />
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