Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Dr. Vijay And Dr. Shankar

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A university in Chennai has decided to confer the doctorate title on Vijay and Shankar. Receiving honors for their service to society is a great achievement indeed. Among the long list of deserving individuals, who had done great service to the society, now joins two more from Kollywood. After Sathyaraj and Deva, it is now the turn of director Shankar and actor Vijay to recieve doctorates.

The Dr. M.G.R Educational and Research Institute in Maduravoyil has been conferring doctorates on persons of merit every year. This year, 3 people have been selected. Two are from the film field. One is actor Vijay and the other is director Shankar. And third one is the Indian Medical Council’s chairman Anil Gohali.

The deemed university run by former AIADMK MP and the founder of the New Justice Party A C Shanmugam will be holding its 16th convocation on the 27th of this month.

The University announced that the doctorate is being given to Vijay for his hard work and achieving so much at this young age, and for his immense contribution to the cause of the underprivileged through social welfare activities with support from his fans.

Shankar gets the doctorate for making films comparable to Hollywood.

The convocation is to be held on the 27th at the university campus in Maduravoyil and the head of India’s space research organization ISRO, Madhavan Nair will chair the convocation and hand over the awards.

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