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'''V. Vasanthi Devi''' (born 1938<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Kumar|first=Divya|date=2010-05-18|title=Memories of Madras – Lessons by the beach|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/memories-of-madras-lessons-by-the-beach/article432894.ece|url-status=live|access-date=2020-11-21|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>) is an Indian [[educationist]] and acclaimed academic. She is the president of the [[Association for India's Development]] and a trustee of the [[Madras Institute of Development Studies]]. Devi served as the [[vice-chancellor]] of the [[Manonmaniam Sundaranar University]] between 1992–1998 and as the chairperson of the State Commission for Women in [[Tamil Nadu]] between 2002 and 2005.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Radhakrishnan|first=R. K.|date=13 May 2016|title=An unusual contestant|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/an-unusual-contestant/article8523746.ece|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-21|website=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]|language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Vasanthi Devi was born in 1938 in [[Dindigul]], [[Madras Presidency]] to P V Das who was a municipal chairman. At the age of 15, she moved to the city of [[Madras]] and enrolled in the [[Queen Mary's College, Chennai]] to complete her [[higher secondary]] education.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Das|first=Monalisa|date=2016-04-21|title=PWF’s candidate against Jayalalithaa is a respected academic, and she wants to put up a tough fight|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/pwf%E2%80%99s-candidate-against-jayalalithaa-respected-academic-and-she-wants-put-tough-fight-41938|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-21|website=[[The News Minute]]|language=en}}</ref> She graduated from [[Presidency College, Chennai]] with a [[Master of Arts]] in history.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Vasanthi Devi|url=https://myneta.info/tamilnadu2016/candidate.php?candidate_id=1336|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=myneta.info|publisher=[[Association for Democratic Reforms]]}}</ref> Subsequently, she went to the [[Philippines]] in the 1970s for a [[PhD]] in domestic political groupings and dynamics and graduated with the doctorate at the [[University of the Philippines]] in 1980.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Srinivasan|first=Meera|date=11 May 2016|title=Tamil Nadu Elections: A Professor's Big Fight Against Jayalalithaa|url=https://thewire.in/politics/tamil-nadu-elections-a-professors-big-fight-against-jayalalithaa|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-21|website=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]}}</ref>

She became a professor at the Queen Mary's College and is noted to have led the 1987 college teacher's strike in Tamil Nadu.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Janardhanan|first=Arun|date=2016-04-21|title=Educationist and former ministers’ kin line up against Jayalalithaa|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/elections-2016/india/politics/tamil-nadu-jayalalithaa-aiadmk-vck-dmk-bjp-2762839/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-21|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref> She was appointed as the principal of the [[Government College for Women, Kumbakonam]] between 1988 and 1990.<ref name=":2" /> Between 1992 and 1998, she was appointed as the [[vice-chancellor]] of the [[Manonmaniam Sundaranar University]] and later made the chairperson of the State Commission for Women in [[Tamil Nadu]] between 2002 and 2005.<ref name=":1" />

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