Kasturiswami Sreenivasan
[1][2] He was born in Karadivavi, a small village near Coimbatore.He did his undergraduate in Physics from Presidency College, Chennai, and then a Masters in Textile Technology at the College of Technology, Manchester, England.He was the founding director of The South India Textile Research Association.For his contributions to building that institution, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Govt.[3][1] He founded the Kasthuri Sreenivasan Art Gallery And Textile Museum in Coimbatore in 1983.