Draft:Ravindran Raghavan

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Ravindran Raghavan
Ravindran Raghavan author of Malabar to Malaya
Personal details
Born
Ravindran Raghavan

(1965-03-11)11 March 1965
Kluang, Johor, Malaysia
SpouseDr Muthamah Perumal
Alma materUniversity of Malaya
(B.E. Hons)
University of New South Wales
(Cert in Proj Mgmnt)
Websitehttps://www.ravi311.com/

Ravindran Raghavan (born 11 March 1965) is a Malaysian author who has published 14 titles.[1] on Amazon. His notable book was "Malabar to Malaya, 2nd Edition" which narrates the history of migration of Indian labour into Malaya (now Malaysia) during the British colonisation era.

Ravindran was awarded the Outstanding Talent Award by the Ministry of Culture, Dubai, UAE in 2023 which also qualified him to be issued the coveted Golden Visa by the UAE government[2].

Education

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Ravindran graduated with an honours Degree in Engineering[3], majoring Chemical Engineering, from the University of Malaya in 1990. He subsequently obtained a Certificate in Project Management from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Career

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Ravindran started his career in 1991 as a Project Engineer in submarine pipelaying when high-density polyethylene pipes were first introduced to Malaysia through a Finnish company, Keppo, Wiik & Hoeglund under their Malaysian company Forenede Plast Malaysia Sdn Bhd. He became the Technical Manager of the same company after some years. Later, in 1997, he moved to Southwire Integral Sdn Bhd, a US-owned fibre optic conduit manufacturer where he rose to the level of General Manager for the ASEAN region.

He tried his hands at being an entrepreneur by starting his own company called Roline Asia Sdn Bhd (where Roline meant Ravi-on-line) to trade in biometric devices, web technology and process automation. After 5 years of building the business, in 2005 he was scouted by a UK shipping company, IAL Container Line (UK) Ltd to be appointed as their Director for Southeast Asia. This move saw him deriving the business masterplan for the company and was later transferred to the Head Office in Dubai UAE.

Ravindran remained with the IAL Group from 2005 until retirement in 2022. He held the position of General Manager in the Group CEO's office for some years prior to retirement.

Migration from British India

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Ravindran is a third-generation ethnic Indian citizen of Malaysia.

Authorship

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As of October 2024, Ravindran has published 14 books on Amazon[4] and counting. He has been excellent in converting interesting conversations into articles that remain as a note of history. His notable articles are found on his Blogspot, covering snapshots of interesting personalities and their life stories.

Travel photography

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Being a passionate photographer, Ravindran has travelled to more than 32 countries and captured many real-life shots of places, people and food. Several of these were published as travel photo books while thousands more of such images are on the cloud.

  1. ^ Malabar to Malaya. ISBN 978-1729104989.
  2. ^ "Malaysian shines in Dubai (UAE) for his world-class achievements". Newswav Sdn Bhd, Malaysia. Newswav.com. 18 July 2023.
  3. ^ "The biodata of Ravindran Raghavan". LinkedIn page on Ravindran Raghavan.
  4. ^ "List of titles by Ravindran Raghavan". Amazon Author Page.