Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School

Vidya Mandir
Motto	Saha Veeryam Karavavahai (Sanskrit: Work Together)
Established	1956
Type	Private school / Central Board of Secondary Education, India
Principal	Ms. Shoba
Vice Principal	Uma Balasubramanian, Vijaya Meenakshi (middle school), Sudha Suresh (primary), and Alamelu (kindergarten)
Founder	R. S. Subbalakshmi
Location	124, Royapettah High Road, Mylapore Chennai - 600004 India
Students	c. 2200
Gender	Co-educational
Houses	Nilkant, Kanchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, and Kailash
Colours	Green and white
Publication	Darpan, Dhwani
Website	www.vidya-mandir.com

Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School is a school in India, in the southern city of Chennai. Founded in 1956 by M. Subbaraya Aiyar, R. S. Subbalakshmi and Padmini Chari, the school recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. It follows the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) pattern of education. The school began as a ladies club and started in February 1956 with a handful of students. Today the school has well over 2000 students, 100 teachers and 35 support staff.

Notable alumni

International cricket players Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
Davis cup tennis player Ramesh Krishnan
Movie director Mani Ratnam
Film producer G. Venkateswaran
Cinematographer P.C. Sreeram
TV presenter Supriya
Computer game designer Krishnan Vidya Shankar
Founder of Univercell Sathish Babu
Movie Actor Mohan. V. Raman
Flute artist Shashank
Carnatic vocal singer Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Carnatic vocalist K. Gayathri
Cricketer Abhinav Mukund who plays for Tamil Nadu, IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings and India
Carnatic music violinist Charumathi Raghuraman
Carnatic classical musician Rithvik Raja
Sikkil Gurucharan, South Indian classical music singer
Anil Srinivasan, well-known pianist and composer
Movie actor Karthik Kumar
Kollywood director Venkat Prabhu
Actor Vikram Prabhu
Computer science researcher Ravishankar K
India No.1 under-18 tennis player Rishabhdev Rajshekar
Carnatic Vocalist Ashvin Bhogendra
Entrepreneur, hedge fund manager and top ranked former tennis player who represented Tamil Nadu and India Bhargav Sri Prakash

Motto

The motto of Vidya Mandir is "Saha Viryam Kara Vaavahai" which means "Let the teacher and student together perform great acts of strength".

References

http://www.vidya-mandir.com/history.php

http://www.vidya-mandir.com/index.php

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