Prema Srinivasan, mother of industrialists Venu Srinivasan (Chairman of TVS Motors) and Gopal Srinivasan (CMD of TVS Capital Funds), passed away on Sunday. She was 90.
She is survived by her two sons, two daughters and grandchildren.
A patron of art and music, she is the daughter of former politician C.R. Ramaswamy. She married Srinivasan Sundaram, the youngest son of T.V. Sundram Iyengar, who founded the TVS Group. In the years following her marriage, she studied Vaishnava ritual traditions and, in time, became an authority on these traditions in Chennai. Later, she expanded on this interest by studying Anthropology at Columbia University.
