Cautionary Tales for Children Tapa blanda - 2017

Dr. Saroja Sundararajan was Principal of colleges in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry for more than 26 years. She was Principal, Pachaiyappa's College for Women, Kanchipuram, Smt. DKNB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai, Avvaiyar Government College for Women, Karaikkal (Pondicherry State), Bharatidasan Government College for Women, Pondicherry and Director, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Post Graduate Studies, Pondicherry. She has authored eleven books most of which are on subjects demanding laborious research. Her specialization has been the history of the erstwhile composite Madras Presidency as reflected in her M.Litt., thesis on the history of Madras 1827-1842, her books S. Satyamurti: A Political Biography, Pre-Gandhian Politics in Madras Presidency 1884-1915, and March to Freedom in Madras Presidency 1916-1947. Her other publications include Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar: A Biography, Glimpses of the History of Karaikkal, Pondicherry: A Profile and Indentured Labour in Mauritius and British Guiana. She had also served on the academic bodies of the Universities of Madras and Pondicherry.The laurels won by Dr. Saroja include the 1965 Population Essay Contest Award sponsored by a New Jersey Foundation, US, and the Seva Ratna Award in 1996 instituted by the Centenarian Trust in memory of Kanchi Paramacharya, in recognition of her services to the cause of Women's education.