Nirmal Selvamony

Nirmal Selvamony was a professor and head of the Department of English Studies and dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Central University of Tamil Nadu until his retirement. In addition to developing the first course on ecocriticism in the Indian university system, in 1980 he founded the forum known as tiṇai, which transformed the idea of tiṇai into a movement by representing it as an alternative way of life, and the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism. He developed a new area of study known as tiṇai studies and revived the philosophical tradition of tiṇai called kāṭci (philosophy).