Sankaran-Nair Vasudevan
Sankaran-Nair Vasudevan | |
|---|---|
| NSA member | Malaysia 1966 - 1967 |
| ABM | Asia 1967 - 1968 |
| Counsellor | Western Asia 1968 - 1973 South Central Asia 1973 - 1976 |
Dr. Sankaran-Nair Vasudevan is a Malaysian Bahá’í who served as a Continental Counselor for Asia.
Background[edit]
Vasudevan studied education in his youth and moved to England from Malaysia to train as a teacher at Brinsford Lodge. After returning to Malaysia around 1959 he was introduced to the Bahá’í Faith by fellow teacher S. Bhaskaran and he was initially highly skeptical of the religion but attended firesides at which he asked many questions. He declared on August 9, 1960, during a visit Hand of the Cause Raḥmatu’lláh Muhájir made to Malaysia and his family declared shortly after him.[1]
Vasudevan settled in Malacca where he worked as a teacher and he was an active member of the Bahá’í community delivering public talks to promote the religion.[2] In 1961 the Translation Committee of Malaysia was formed and Vasudevan worked for the Committee translating Bahá’í literature into Tamil.[3] In 1963 he was appointed to the National Bahá’í Youth Council of Malaya as Chairman,[4] and in 1965 he was appointed to the National Teaching Committee as its secretary.[5]
In 1966 Vasudevan was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Malaysia,[6] and he was also elected as secretary of the body.[7] He also began teaching weekend courses on the Faith at the first Bahá’í Institute in Malaysia in 1966.[8] In 1967 he pioneered to Sri Lanka at the suggestion of Raḥmatu’lláh Muhájir,[9] and Muhájir appointed him as an Auxiliary Board member assigned to Sri Lanka.[10]
In 1968 the Universal House of Justice established the Continental Boards of Counselors and Vasudevan was appointed as an inaugural Counselor for Western Asia,[11] and he served on the body until 1973 when the Universal House of Justice established the Continental Board for South Central Asia and appointed him to the new jurisdiction.[12] He served up to 1976,[13] then moved to the United States where he completed his doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts.[14]
After completing his doctorate Vasudevan moved to India and as of 1989 was serving as the director of the Bahá’í inspired New Era School in Panchghani,[15] and he was still serving as its principal as of 1997.[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 41
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 27
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 294
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 343
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 299
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 299
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 311
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 312
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 590
- ↑ A. Manisegaran, Jewel Among Nations, Splendour Publications: Selangor, 2003, p 573
- ↑ 24 June 1968 message from the Universal House of Justice to all National Spiritual Assemblies
- ↑ Baha'i News (1973). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 509, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ 24 March 1976 message from the Universal House of Justice to all National Spiritual Assemblies
- ↑ https://bahairecollections.com/2019/05/
- ↑ American Baha'i, Vol. 20(1), p 6
- ↑ One Country, Vol. 9(3), p 12
