Sharmini to leave house to NUS

A CELEBRATED Malaysian beauty has decided to bequeath her house in Ipoh to the National University of Singapore (NUS) – her late father's alma mater. 

Sharmini Tiruchelvam, whose stunning looks in the 1960s and 1970s was captured on canvas by artists such as Picasso and di Chirico, said she wanted to honour the memory of her father, Dr Michael Emmanuel Tiruchelvam, who died in 1976 at 79.