நண்பர்கள் பேராசியர் வ.வேசுவும் சுப்பு மணியனும் மாதந்தோறும் நடத்தும் “தமிழ் வளர்த்த சான்றோர்” கூட்டங்களைப்பற்றிய கட்டுரை 14/08/15 ஹிந்துவில் வெளியாகியிருக்கிறது.
அடுத்த கூட்டம் வரும்17ம் தேதி எம். எஸ் விஸ்வநாதன் பற்றிய உரையாடல். மதுரை ஜி.எஸ் மணி பங்கேற்கிறார்,
அனைவரும் வருக.
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Sri
Krishna Gana Sabha’s initiative turns the spotlight on people’s contribution to
Tamil, writes Suganthy Krishnamachari.
‘Tamizh
Valartha Sandror’ is an onstage conversation about the contributions of various
people to Tamil. The programme is the brain child of Subbu, organiser of Tamil
Nadu Vasagar Vattam, and Va. Ve. Su. (Dr. V.V. Subramanian), a retired
Professor of Plant Biology, who has an abiding interest in Tamil.The
programme has no sponsors and is entirely supported by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha.
It has drawn people of different age groups, and the shows have always been
houseful, even during the IPL matches!“There
is this wrong idea that love for Tamil somehow precludes belief in Hinduism.
But few could have handled Tamil the way Kripanandavariar did, and yet his
lectures were about religion. So we’ve included the contributions of people
like Variar too,” says Subbu.“Contributions
of U.Ve. Swaminatha Iyer, Papanasam Sivan, Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar and so on
have been discussed, the idea being to highlight contributions to Iyal, Isai
and Natakam, nationalistic causes and religion,” says Va.Ve.Su. The programme
has been a journey of discovery, for the audience and the organisers. For
example, in the segment on P. Sri, popular writer in Ananda Vikatan, it came to light that
when P. Sri heard his grandson Sudhangan sing ‘Kallellam Manikka’, he called up
Kannadasan to compliment him on writing a film song about Kalidasa and Kamban
that became popular among youngsters. Half an hour later, Kannadasan turned up
at P. Sri’s house to seek his blessings!
Nityashri
Mahadevan mentioned a song whose composer DKP had forgotten. When this was reported
inKalki, linguist Siddhalingaiah wrote in to say that the composer was
his grandfather, Ramalingaiah!A.P.
Nagarajan (APN) had not been to school, as he had joined TKS’s troupe at the
age of nine. And yet he wrote the script for the film, ‘Sampoorna Ramayanam,’
when he was just 28!“APN
gave roles to his friends from theatre, for instance as Balaiah’s disciples in
‘Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam.’ A younger artist was suggested instead of Padmini for
‘Thillana Mohanambal,’ but APN turned down the suggestion,” said ARS.The
possible subjects of discussion seem endless, and it looks like no one, not
even the organisers, can guess which will be the concluding episode!***The
17th episode of Tamizh Valartha Sandror was on A.K. Chettiar (AKC), and saw
Va.Ve.Su. in conversation with writer Ramanan.AKC
produced the first Tamil documentary on Gandhiji. He collected material from
various sources, and also shot at the Sabarmati ashram. He shot a scene of 2000
women spinning charkas in Tiruppur, where the background song was Namakkal
Kavignar’s ‘Aadu Ratte’ sung by DKP.This
writer has heard the 78 rpm record of ‘Aadu Ratte,’ produced by Columbia
Records, played on her father’s gramophone; on the other side of the disc is
another song from the same film: ‘Naam Gandhijiyai Ninaippome; nal kadar
udaiyai anivome.’ The music was by S.V. Venkatraman. The disc was not mentioned
in the programme. Va.Ve. Su later told this writer, that he didn’t know that a
record had been cut, and that he would include the information in a forthcoming
book on Tamizh Valartha Sandror.In the
book, ‘Annal Adicuvattil,’ AKC recorded his experiences of making the film. He
writes of a porter at a railway station who refused to accept payment from AKC,
because he was producing a film on Gandhiji.AKC paid
Congress leader Satyamurthi Rs. 800 for lending his voice for the dubbing,
instead of the Rs.1000 that Satyamurthi wanted. AKC records in his book that he
was saddened because Satyamurthi did not speak a word to him during the train
journey to Bombay.The
film was first released in Roxy theatre, Purasawalkam, on August 23, 1940.
Twelve years later, the documentary was dubbed into English and the day
Eisenhower was sworn in as the President of United States, he and his wife
watched the English version.AKC ran
a magazine called Kumuda
Malar. The British Government was wary of granting registration to
magazines, so he overcame the problem cleverly. He didn’t call it a magazine,
but merely numbered the issues so they could pass off as volumes of a book. Although,
readers knew it was a magazine.
When
Tiruppur Krishnan wanted to subscribe to the magazine, AKC told him that
someone on the street where Krishnan lived was already a subscriber and that he
(AKC) would tell that subscriber to lend his copy to Krishnan!AKC
wrote many books based on his travels. In his book on Kodagu, he quotes a
correspondent who said that Rajaji would be glad if the Cauvery river flowed as
coffee!AKC
also compiled a collection of travel essays, which included those from 1874 and
1885, two essays by Chellamma Bharati, wife of poet Bharati, and Tiru.Vi.Ka’s
essay on train travel by third class titled, ‘Bhooloka Narakam.’Next programme: August 17, 6.30 p.m., at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha:
Madurai G.S. Mani talks about his association with M.S. Viswanathan.
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