VANCHINATHAN. Born shankaran REVOLUTILNARY. he was born in 1887.He studied MA at tiruvanantapuram and also got lucrative govt job. he on17 June 1911 shot and killed tax collector Robert Ashe of Ttirunelveli while he was travelling to madras in a train at station Maniychi when the train halted. Later, he shot himself with his pistol and died. The station had been named after him.