The sudden demise of Sangaratna R.Thiagaraja on Monday 29th June 2009 at 8.30 pm has come as a shock to the Malaysian Hindus in general and the Malaysia Hindu Sangam members in particular. He was a Trojan amongst the Hindus dedicating his life to the community 24 hours a day of selfless service.
Thiagaraja s/o Ratnasamy, 68 years was born and educated in Sungai Petani, Kedah. He started his early NGO life as the Hon.Asst. Secretary of the Central Kedah Hindu Youth Organisation (HYO) in the sixties. Later when he settled in Kuala Lumpur working at the Public Works Department he became an active member of the Kuala Lumpur / Selangor Council of Malaysia Hindu Sangam in the seventies.
Initially, he was devoted to looking into the welfare issues of the Hindus of very low income group. One has to just give him a telephone call and he would be at the scene within a short period of time. He took a lot of interest on solving the problems of unclaimed Hindu bodies in Hospitals and his representatives in the States will be at the spot immediately. He was also very much involved in the prevention and solving the problems of would be converts to other religions. In the 1990s he was able to bring back to Hinduism those who were unethically converted to other religions.
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