Sivagnanam Pillai (1861–1936), Indian politician of the Justice Party. They have also migrated to a large level in Sri Lanka in previous centuries and to USA and UK in the last century. Tirunelveli Saiva Pillai's are spread all over Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of India Within Tamil Nadu, their concentration is more in Chennai, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Kanyakumari, Madurai, Theni and Dindigul districts. These converts remained vegetarian and apart from not practising Hinduism, this sub-section observed every other 'Saiva Pillai' practise such as caste superiority.

A very few of them were converted during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to Christianity and retained the caste name 'Saiva Pillai'. People of the community are considered very much conservative. The Saiva Vellalars are strictly vegetarians. I thank everyone from God to my Bharatanatya teacher, family, friends, GTN Arts & Science College, SevenI event management, Lakshman Sruthi, Vels University, Maalai Murasu, Visaka Media, Tamilnadu Tourism, Sathanai Sigaram, SIVET college and many others who were very supportive to my achievements in many forms.They are staunch worshippers of Shiva and hence got the prefix Saiva. I fondly remember all the people behind my successful achievements in the field of Bharathanatayam. This event was held at SIVET college Chennai. In 2020 Bharatham 5000 was suprassed by the event “Sathir 10000” which was also themed as the former event which was organized by Adavallan Isaiyalayam and Sathanai Sigaram on behalf of Tamilnadu Tourism.This event was also recognized and certified by Guinness World Records. The motto of this event was not only to create a world record but also to create an awareness about the glory of traditional art bhrathanatyam and the classic Tamil literature “Thirukkural” to the world. Padma Subramaniam felicitated this Guinness World Record event.

Well known Indian Classical dancer Padmabhusan Dr. This performance was recognized and certified by Guinness World Records. Eventually the event was named “Bharatham 5000” and was performed with 4525 bharatham dancers in 2017 at Vels University. This achievement was further motivated me to organize a Guinness World Record with the same theme but this time even with larger number of Bharatham Dancers. This performance was done based on Thirukkural couplets for 26 minutes which was recognized and certified by the familiar world record books like In 2015 for the very first time in the world history the largest bharathanatyam performance was done with 2372 bharatham dancers organized by me in GTN Arts and Science college.

Vijayalakshmi navaneethakrishnan