Tan Sri Athi Nahappan arrived to Penang when he was still about 9 years old. When he grew up and the World War 2 broke out, he worked as journalist for Tamil publications and became the youngest editor at Tamil Nesan at the age of 22.
He then went to London with his family in 1954 to pursue law and then came back to Malaysia to run his legal practice. In 1959, Tan Sri Athi Nahappan was appointed to the Senate and in 1974 appointed to be the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and subsequently a full Minister in 1976.
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