Career
He participated in the India"s Independence movement. In 1946, he made a turning point in the history of Freedom Movement in Pondicherry by forming the French India National Congress along with J.Savarinathan, Ambadi Narayanan, Govinda Pathar and M.A.Annamalai. lieutenant was succeeded by French India Students Congress.
He is often called as T.N.Sethuraman Chettiar by the affectionate people.
He served as the Deputy Mayor of Pondicherry. He was a scholar and a great philanthropist.
He was a man of simplicity. He was the political guru for many of the present politicians of Pondicherry.
To honor him, a street was named after him.
Sethuraman was born in Puducherry to Nataraja Chettiar and Kusalambal Ammaiyar on 24 January 1923. He was actually named "Sethu Ramasamy" on the belief of the news that there was Sethu Dam built by Lord Ram in Rameswaram. Later he was called "Sethuraman" and "Thirumudi" is his family name.
Their family lived in the Traditional Chettinad House in Ananda Rangapillai Street of Puducherry where you could feel the presence of Lord Lakshmi and Lord Saraswati.
His family was well-known in the city. They were wealthy and famous in Puducherry.
His ancestor Arumuga Chettiar and his descendants were in Tharangambadi and was having trade with Dutch. They were into trade of Dye, Tobacco, Soap et cetera
Their trade expanded to Mauritius.
They had farmlands and two Bungalows in Mauritius. Later they gave their farmland for lease to "Helios Malaka Company". In meanwhile they got contact with French East India Company and shifted to Puducherry where they continued their business.
One of them was "Padangu Narayanasamy Chettiar", a philanthropist who was appreciated by M. Z. Savarayalounayagar in Recueil de chants tamouls.