Road in Tambaram named after late Major Mukund Varadarajan
The Tamil Nadu government has issued orders for naming a road in Tambaram after the late Army officer and martyr Major Mukund Varadarajan. The renaming
The Tamil Nadu government has issued orders for naming a road in Tambaram after the late Army officer and martyr Major Mukund Varadarajan. The renaming of the road after the recipient of the Ashoka Chakra followed a request from the Army.
The road named after the late Army officer that connects Tambaram railway station and Velachery is within the Tambaram Municipal Corporation limits. Late Major Mukund hailed from Ananthapuram. He spent his early years in the Tambaram locality and was a student of Madras Christian College.
Mukund Varadarajan was martyred during a counter-terrorism operation while on deputation to the 4th Battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles in Jammu and Kashmir in April 2014. Later in August that year, he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award.
Major Varadarajan’s story reached a wider audience through the Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Tamil film Amaran that was released in October 2024.
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