Yecha Gunja Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy[1] (27 November 1925 – 6 August 2019), better known as Mrs YGP, was an Indian journalist, educationist and social worker.
[2] Rajalakshmi was awarded the Padma Shri in 2010, India's fourth highest civil honour for her contribution to literature and education.
Rajalakshmi was born in Madras on 27 November 1925 into an affluent and educated family, the daughter of Burmah Shell employee R. Parthasarathy and his wife Alamelu Amma.
Her father was the son of Indian independence activist, Dewan Bahadur T. Rangachari and her mother was a homemaker.
[3][4] In 1958, Rajalakshmi started a school with 13 students along with members of the Nungambakkam Ladies Recreation Club in a shed in the terrace of her house in Nungambakkam and named it Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan in deference to the wishes of one of its benefactors, R. M. Seshadri, who expressed his wish for the school to be named after his wife.