Born on 19.12.1988 to Nagavalli-P.Dhayaparan couple, I, Thirukkural Thirumulanathan, hold an astonishing profile from my childhood. Excerpts are as follows:
- Learnt all the 1330 couplets of Thirukkural, and could recite it clearly and completely, however asked, at 4 years of age. This achievement was published in the Limca Book of Records - 1996.
- Have recited all the 1330 couplets of Thirukkural in order, clearly, in just 66 minutes of time. The feat was performed at 6 years of age.
- Performed ASHTAVADHANAM (Multi tasking - 8 things at a time), in just 8 years of age, the youngest in the world to do so. (Could do SHODASHAAVADHANAM - 16 things at a time - at present).
- Completed the DCA and PGDCA courses at 10 years of age.
- Have won a lot of prizes in quiz competitions. Won the second prize in the regional finals of the Young World quiz 2005.
- Have travelled around a hundred thousand kilometres all around Tamilnadu and Srilanka, performed in over 400 stages, received over 60 awards and 10 Gold medals, within 8 years of age. It is to be noted that my mother, Mrs. Nagavalli Dhayaparan, memorized all 1330 couplets of Thirukkural, just by listening to me performing in stages!
- Have received the 'Honorary Doctorate' from the World Academy of Arts & Culture, California, USA, for reciting Thirukkural at 4 years of age.
- Other than Thirukkural, I have also memorized over 10,000 tamil literary lines from over 30 tamil literatures.
- Unveiled the Statue of Thiruvalluvar in Trincomalee, Srilanka, and also participated in around 32 programmes in 11 days, at 7 years of age.
- Passed the first three Hindi exams conducted by Dakshin Bharatha Hindi Prachar Sabha, within 7 years of age.
- Could find the day of any date from the year 1901 to 2100, at just 4 years of age.
- Could tell the capital of any nation in the world, at a very young age.
- Wrote the 3rd and 4th standard exams of Tamilnadu State Board, when I was 4 and 5 years old (resp.), and scored high marks. The news appeared in the local newspaper Dinamalar on 3.5.1993.
- Have read the Hindu epics, Ramayanam and Mahabharatham, the saivite epic Periyapuranam, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi - 'My Experiments with truth', within 8 years of age.
- Have been appreciated by many Educationists, Vice Chancellors, Chief Ministers, Cabinet Ministers of Centre and State, Judges, and Experts of various fields.
- Have received the "Kural Prize" from the government of Tamilnadu from 2000 to 2005.
- Was Felicitated in the Indian parliamentary campus in December 2015, for being the topper in the Thirukkural competition organized by Mr. Tarun Vijay, the then MP of Rajya Sabha. Was adjudged the first among the 133 students selected for felicitation.
- My research paper was selected for presentation in the 12th conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), held at Montreal, Canada, from 11-14 December, 2016. The conference is rated to be among the most reputed conferences for research in game theory. It is to be noted that my paper was the only paper selected for the conference from Indian institutes in the years 2013-2016.
- Conducted Thirukkural Classes for school students in my hometown (at 7 years of age).