Renowned educationist and founder of the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB) Group of Schools, Mrs. Y.G.Parthasarathy, passed away at a city hospital on Tuesday afternoon. She was 93.
Her son and actor and theatre personality Y. Gee. Mahendra, said that she had been taken to the hospital on Monday after she complained of breathlessness. “She was stable and talking to us. In the afternoon, she asked for something to eat, but then just collapsed. It was a cardiac arrest,” he said.
Mrs. YGP or Rashmi, as Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy was known, received the Padma Shri award in 2010 for her contribution to the field of education. Her husband, the late Y.G. Parthasarathy, was an actor and theatre personality and the founder of the theatre group United Amateur Artists.
Mrs. YGP had worked in The Hindu and had written regularly for its Sport & Pastime magazine. She has a B.Ed, M.Ed and M.A. History to her credit. An eminent educationist, she started the PSBB in 1958, in a small manner, but it grew to accomodate several schools across various campuses spread over the city.
