{"id":249,"date":"2007-05-21T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/05\/21\/philantropist-datuk-r-doraisingam\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T01:30:19","slug":"philantropist-datuk-r-doraisingam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/05\/21\/philantropist-datuk-r-doraisingam\/","title":{"rendered":"Philantropist Datuk R. Doraisingam"},"content":{"rendered":"
Son follows in his father’s philantropic ways<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/5\/21\/central\/17599782&sec=central <\/a><\/div>\n

By M. KRISHNAMOORTHY<\/b><\/p>\n

krishna@thestar.com.my<\/a>  <\/p>\n

THE legacy of giving that Datuk R. Doraisingam learnt from his philanthropist father N. Rengasamy Pillai continues to this day.  <\/p>\n

The giving started when, 20 years ago, Doraisingam opened a small restaurant in Masjid India and gave food to poor school children, charity events and homes of the disabled.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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School opening: Rengasamy’s wife Renah Parvathy with Hon (right) and Doraisingam (second from left) after unveiling the plaque at SMJK San Min.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When the Tsunami broke, he immediately initiated donation boxes at all Lotus Restaurant outlets to help victims in Indonesia.  <\/p>\n

Lotus Group of restaurants CEO Doraisingam and his brother Datuk R. Ramalingam also run a home for about 100 disabled children in India.  <\/p>\n

“I am practising what my father taught me. We believe help moves in a circle. Our family owes it to society and we want to return our fair share,” said Doraisingam who is also involved in plantations, film distribution and real estate.  <\/p>\n

Doraisingam, a Penangnite and an old boy of St Xaviers, said: “It was my late father’s wish to give back to society, regardless of race,” he said, adding that his father had passed away at the age of 68 in 1986.  <\/p>\n

Fifty years ago, on Merdeka Day, his father Rengasamy Pillay in Telok Intan gave 30 Indian and Malay labourers in Bukit Mertajam a Merdeka Day gift.  <\/p>\n

The gift then was an acre of land each worth RM20,000, which is today worth about a million ringgit.  <\/p>\n

He also made a donation of parcels of land to a Chinese, Tamil and national school in Telok Intan.  <\/p>\n

Rengasamy made the gift in sympathy of the labourers who lost their jobs and livelihood as a result of the fragmentation of the rubber estate land.  <\/p>\n

One of the recipients was SMJK San Min. Two years ago, Deputy Education Minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim opened the school’s new building.  <\/p>\n

“I am touched by the donation of land by an Indian for a Chinese school,” said Hon during the opening.   <\/p>\n

In addition, he also made another gift towards the Tamil studies department, Universiti Malaya, where 15 students received RM1,111 as a scholarship for their studies.  <\/p>\n

One of the recipients was the former deputy health minister the late Datuk K.Pathmanaban.  <\/p>\n

Dr Rama Subbiah, the former head of the Tamil Studies Department, was another recipient.  <\/p>\n

Rengasamy started work in Bukit Mertajam as a bank apprentice and went on to become a wholesale merchant and later dealt in real estate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Son follows in his father’s philantropic ways   http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/5\/21\/central\/17599782&sec=central By M. KRISHNAMOORTHY krishna@thestar.com.my  THE legacy of giving that Datuk R. Doraisingam learnt from his philanthropist father N. Rengasamy Pillai continues to this day.  The giving started when, 20 years ago, Doraisingam opened a small restaurant in Masjid India and gave food to poor school children, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,133,143],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-isa","tag-penang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}