St. Tyagaraja, in his Kaluguna Pada (Purna Lalita), reveals his intensely devotional enquiry with Sri anjaneya, the foremost devotee of Sri Rama.  'Having entrusted everything to you, Rama takes His ablutions,offers neivedya to Sri Ranganatha and partakes the prasada served by Sita by her own hands while you recite sattvika puranas.  You drink deep this Brahmananda regularly.  Will I be fortunate to be ever blessed with such service?'  This is a passionate salutation to Sri Anjaneya.  Sri Rama is seen taking food and Sita serving it.  Service-concious Anjaneya reads from cadjan leaves.  (An elegant portayal of the ancient concept that food is to be taken in an enviornment of bhakti.

From the 7th century upto the 12th century AD, we have a lot of musical compositions in Tamil by the Saiva & the Vaishnava saints. Sambandar, Naavukkarasar, Sundarar, the twelve Alwars, Manickavasagar, Arunagirinadhar, Ramalinga Adigalar, Marimuthu Pillai, Muthu Thandavar, Arunachala Kavi, Oothukkadu Venkatasubbaiar, Mazhavai Subbarama Bhagavathar, Subramania Bharathi, Papanasam Sivan, Periasamy Thooran, Namakkal Ramalingam Pillai, Bharathi Dasan have all rendered beautiful compositions that could very well enrich the musical concerts.
It is a really sorry state of affair that these compositions are very rarely sung by our musicians in their concerts. From the 16th century onwards TamilNadu was under the rule of Nayaks, Marathas, Muslims & the British whose mother tongue is other than Tamil. Naturally, there was no patronage either of the Govt. or the public. Somehow the Telugu kirthanas of Thiagarajar, one of the musical trinity of Thiruvarur have become very familiar with musicians (whether they understood the meaning or not) & naturally no efforts were taken either by the musicians or the public in rendering/listening the Tamil compositions.
Aggrieved at this state of affairs, Dr. Raja Sir. Annamalai Chettiar came forward to popularise Tamil compositions in all music concerts & put them back to the pristine glory. The Tamil Isai Sangam, Chennai was founded in 1943. A majestic building in the heart of the city was built to house the Sangam. The Tamil Isai Sangam celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1967 & Golden Jubilee in 1992.
 
 

1.Shri.M.M.DhandabaniDesikar	1957	22.ThiruveezhimizhalaiShri.S.Natarajasundaram pillai	1977
2.Shri.P.SambaMurthyIyer	1957	23.Smt.M.L.Vasanthakumari	1978
3.Kumbakonam Shri.K.Rajamanickam Pillai	1957	24.RamanathapuramShri.C.S.Murugabupathi	1979
4.Shri.P.S.Veerusamy Pillai	1959	25.Shri.M.P.Somasundaram	1980
5.Shri.Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar	1960	26.Dr.S.Ramanathan	1981
6.Shri.Vazhuvur B.RamaiyaPillai	1961	27.ShriSeerghazhiS.Govindarajan	1982
7. Madurai Shri Mani Iyer	1962	28.NamagiripettaiShriK.Krishnan	1983
8.Musiri Shri.Subramania Iyer	1963	29.LalgudiShri.G.Jayaraman	1984
9.Chitoor Shri.Subramania Pillai	1964	30.ThanjaiShri.K.P.Kittappapillai	1985
10.Shri.Papanasam Sivan	1965	31.Dharmapuramshri.P.Saminathan	1986
11.Smt.K.B.Sunderambal	1966	32.ShriR.S.Manohar	1987
12.Shri.Kribananda Vaariyar	1967	33.Shri.A.K.C.Natarajan	1988
13.Paalakadu ShriT.S.Mani Iyer	1968	34.KunnakudiShri.R.Vaidyanathan	1989
14.Semmangudi Shri.Srinivasa Iyer	1969	35.ValayapattiShriA.R.Subramaniam	1990
15.Smt.M.S.Subbalakshmi	1970	36.MaharajapuramShri.V.Santhanam	1991
16.Madurai Shri.S.Somasundaram	1971	37.Dr.K.J.Yesudoss	1992
17.Shri.M.P.PeriyasamiThooran	1972	38.Dr.SheikChinnaMoulan	1993
18.Smt.D.K.Pattammal	1973	39.Dr.SelviPadmasubramaniam	1994
19.ThiruveezhimizhalaiShri.S.SubramaniaPillai	1974	40.ThirupamburamDr.S.Shanmugasundaram	1995
20.Smt.Balasaraswathi	1975	41.Shri.T.R.Paappa	1996
21.MayuramShri.V.R.GovindarajaPillai	1976	42.	1997