17 Eminent Personalities Honoured with Loyola Alumni Award 2025

Chennai, August 4, 2025: Seventeen distinguished individuals were honoured with the Loyola Alumni Award – 2025 on Sunday, as part of Loyola College’s Centenary celebrations.

Delivering the presidential address, Loyola Alumni Association President G. Viswanathan emphasised the prestige associated with studying at Loyola. “If you get a seat in Loyola, it is not an ordinary thing, because this can take you to any heights,” he said. Recalling his personal journey, he added, “For example, I came here as a boy from a village in 1957. As I studied in Tamil medium, it was difficult for me (in Loyola). After four years, when I left Loyola, I was an orator. I represented Loyola in intercollegiate debates.”

Reflecting on the values instilled at Loyola, Mr. Viswanathan remarked, “I follow the same discipline in VIT University that I was taught in Loyola College, and we are very successful. If at all there is any credit, it should go to Loyola College.”

Rector Fr. Antony Robinson presented the awards and highlighted the significant role Loyola College continues to play in educating the poor and marginalised students.

The recipients of the awards included:

• Professional Excellence Award – 2025: Former High Court Chief Justice R. Sudhakar
• Service Excellence Award – 2025: Meleveetil Damodaran IAS, P. Wilson MP (Rajya Sabha), S. Davidson Devasirvatham IPS, J. Premanand IRS
• Guiding Light of the Year Award – 2025: Media Development Foundation and Asian College of Journalism Chairman Sashi Kumar, educationist V.M. Muralidharan
• Business Leader of the Year Award – 2025: Sarath Reddy
• Research Excellence Award – 2025: Dr. V. Mohan
• Global Excellence Award – 2025: M. Raghuraman
• Sporting Excellence Award – 2025: Viswanathan Anand and Sharath Kamal
• Creative Excellence Award – 2025: Gayatri Pushkar, Vijay Antony, and Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi
• Friends of Loyola Award: G.K. Vasan MP (Rajya Sabha) and Reji Abraham

The awards ceremony celebrated the far-reaching impact of Loyola alumni across diverse fields, from law and politics to science, business, education, sports, and the arts.

Source: The Hindu

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