adhuvum, andha varisaila ullavanga range enna ? Satyajit Ray, Nadigar Thilagam, JRD Tata, just to name a few - luminaries and visionaries..
idhellaam soga kadhai - vittu thalla vendiyadhuthaan.
PS: In erstwhile Madras, one Dr. GN Ramachandran did some phenomenal work in the field of biochemistry while at the University of Madras and the famous Ramachandran Plot is a standard in every single biochemistry text book all over the world.
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS95/cou...etry/rama.html
http://www.proteinstructures.com/Str...dran-plot.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramachandran_plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._N._Ramachandran
had he lived in Bengal or Maharashtra, there would be heavy push for at least a major Padma award or an institute named after him.
anyway end of digression..