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Former President of PERMIM (1976-1988)

1. GENESIS OF PERMIM
There was a bread vendor in Taiping. He was a simple man, not of great means. But he had
the interests of the community at heart. He had long felt that there ought to be an umbrella
organization for the community in this country. For some years he had written several
articles in the Tamil language papers in the country about the need for such a body and
talked to various people he thought might embrace the proposal. Like many such proposals
made by persons who are not considered to be consequential by the well-off members of the
community it went unheeded by anyone for many years. But he kept on at it, writing and
speaking to others who might take up the proposal – that was all that was within his limited
power to do. His name was A.E. Mohamed Ibrahim and he wrote under the pen name of
“Thirukim”.