Sundara ramaswamy biography of donald
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Translated by S Krishnan
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Sundara Ramaswamy and Kalachuvadu: Kannan Sundaram in Conversation with Kavitha Muralidharan
Kavitha Muralidharan (KM): Vanakam (greetings). Can you share your thoughts about Sundara Ramaswamy as a family man and as a literary personality within the family?
Kannan Sundaram (KS): He was not somebody who would guide his children, shaping them in a very obvious manner, but he would create an environment that might have a positive impact on his children. All of us, my sisters and I—we were voracious readers; still are. That is obviously because of the environment that we had. There were books all around us. Even when he wants us to read a book, rather than give the book to us, he would have them put around the table. So that was the kind of influence, without saying this is a good book, read this, he will make sure that we see the book, and then we can make our own choice, either read them or not read them. And we might have different choices in selecting the books. So that’s the kind of subtle way in which he may have tried to shape us. But we all grew up very differently. My elder sister, she was a doctor, and then later in life, she decided to write. My younger sister went into music. So all of us, I think, had a cultural influence on us, in our own ways. His infl
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J.J.: Some Jottings
by Sundara Ramaswamy
translated by achalapathy
Novel as critique - achalapathy
This article draws from the introduction to J.J.: Some Jottings by Sundara Ramaswamy
It was in my 15th year, in the summer holidays after my 11th standard examination (), I first read J.J.: Some Jottings. J.J.'s mocking query, "Has Sivakami Ammal yet fulfilled her vow?" still rings in my ears. (An allusion to the immensely popular historical romance of Kalki, Sivakami's Vow; this plus-page novel, originally serialised for many years in the weekly Kalki, revolves around the vow made by Sivakami, the danseuse and lady love of the Pallava king Narasimhavarman, when she is captured by the Chalukya king.) Like many readers of my, and subsequent, generations, I have read J.J. in full many times over, and dipped into it at random in moments of gloom and emptiness. Being a curious amalgam of Cherthalai Krishna Iyer, Thamaraikkani, Mullaikkal Madhavan Nair and much else, I never quite agreed with much of what Sundara Ramaswamy said. But a running inner dialogue with him has continued. One of the few writers I wished to meet in person, since my first meeting with him in , the dialogue has