Dr. V. Subramanian was the President of the Sabha for a continuous period of 27 years from 1975. Seldom has an individual merged his identity totally with the institution and worked assiduously for its growth and development. Known for his deep sense of duty, commitment, involvement and responsibility, he stood as a colossus, leading from the front, during the period of despair caused by the destruction of Sabha’s auditorium and its strenuous and prolonged reconstruction from 1990 to 1998. This would remain etched in the memory of the Sabha for years to come. In the year 2002, he was unanimously honoured by being elected President Emeritus of the Sabha for life, in recognition of his yeomen service.

On 29th September 2003 he breathed his last. A bust of Dr. Subramanian was unveiled in the Ground Floor Foyer on 26th January 2004. The Sabha’s Talent Promotion concerts are named after him. A Memorial Lecture is held in his honour on 26th January each year or near thereto, coinciding with his birth anniversary.

Date	Speaker	Subject
17.12.2005	Dada J P Vaswani	Change your attitude: Change your life
26.01.2007	Smt. Jaya Row of Vedanta Vision	Message of Bhagwad Gita
27.01.2008	Swami Parthasarathy of Vedanta Cultural Foundation	THe 3 Yogas to Meditation
25.01.2009	SAR Prasanna Venkata- Charier Chaturvedi Swami	Life Management
26.01.2010	Swami Dayanand Saraswati	Attitudes & Values
26.01.2011	M. K. Ramanujam	Practical Spirituality for Modern Times
26.01.2012	Ms. Prema Pandurang	Krishnam Vande Jagadguru
26.01.2013	Shri Damodara Deekshitar	Edu Bhakti
26.01.2014	Shri Dushyant Sridhar	The Philosophy of Ramayana and the esoteric traits in it
26.01.2015	Swami Swatmananda	Detachment for happiness & love
26.01.2016	Ms. Niloofer Giri	Leading an Auspicious Life
The lecture series has since been concluded.