But this translation may succeed in doing what your Tamil failed to do!” “I already have survived the mortification of correcting your Tamil. “My Tamil is awful, sir! But since my Hindi…” “Why don’t you get this corrected or better still, rewritten?”
I facilely gave the Tamil meaning of that word. I noticed three dictionaries, the photocopies of the Hindi transcription that had come from Bombay and the handwritten Tamil translation spread all over his table – always big enough to play billiards on and the sheer painful tension on his face. I am not happy with the copy and finding it extremely difficult to correct the text translated from Sanskritised Hindi due to a fear of errors…Now this word…” “I had decided to carry the translation, but have now begun entertaining doubts whether I made a mistake. Mr Cho had wrestled with the translated versions and seemed to be at the end of his tether during the checking of the Tamil rendering of the second episode by some other person. Some Hindi-Tamil scholar had been asked to do the translation of the Mahabharat dialogues from the original. The telecast of BR Chopra’s Hindi costume drama Mahabharat changed my outlook in journalism forever. Thanks to careful editing and grooming by Mr Cho, I learnt to write passably in Tamil and was thrilled to know I had an audience who liked my dry wit and sarcasm in Tamil political reporting. “So why don’t you call yourself Venkat for Thuglak?” Can you elaborate on the letter ‘V’ in your name?” “The name TSV Hari is appended to a left-leaning, anti-establishment troublemaker image. It took me some 4 years to begin writing in Thuglak, as the standards set by Mr Cho were very tough.
#Cho ramaswamy son free
“I will be changing the world,” were the words I had told myself when my livelihood endeavour had begun in the sports department of Free Press Journal as a reporter-sub-editor and soon changed to crime and political reporting when I relocated a year later to Chennai in 1978. It opened my eyes to a two home-truths that always existed, but I had failed to notice them till then.Įver since I had become a journalist in 1977, illusions of grandeur had pumped up my ego like an oversized and therefore rotten pumpkin. I had been given the job of translating its Hindi dialogues for Thuglak magazine…and shall ever remain thankful to Mr Cho S Ramaswamy for giving me that opportunity.
#Cho ramaswamy son serial
The Hindi television serial Mahabharat on Doordarshan was doing its first run. Excerpts from my blog dated April 23 2011: In more ways than one, I owe my career in Tamil journalism to Mr Cho. They were friends till the ends of their existence on earth. Cho had approved and said, “Jayalalithaa has an axe to grind against Karunanidhi and her attacking him verbally would do wonders for the AIADMK.” That piece of advice is holding good to this day – even after the demise of both Jaya and Mr Cho. Soon MGR had called and confirmed the tidings.
Jayalalithaa is said to have snapped the connection. Give the phone to him and I will tell him my opinion,” Mr. So why ask me? Surely, MGR must be somewhere near you. “You seem to have taken the decision already at the behest of MGR. Cho on the phone and revealed the details of the olive branch extended by MGR. What is more, she had written articles in Thuglak.īefore appointing Jayalalithaa as the propaganda secretary, Jayalalithaa had called Mr. Not many know that Mr Cho had played a significant role at the start of Jaya’s political career. Mr Cho had been wheeled into the ICU of the hospital where J Jayalalithaa had undergone treatment for 75 days. More often than not, it has proved painful, but for some strange reason, the pains are always enjoyable,” he used to say. Opting for the Truth has never been a difficult decision for me. In my case, he does it unerringly everyday – showing me the difference between the worldly ‘Maya’ and the Ultimate Truth. “I am only answerable to The Almighty resident in me.
He connected with his faithful readers and never wrote against the diktat of his conscience – even if it meant gaining newer enemies and losing old friendships. He had addressed his readers through the opening below his neck on January 2016 – something unheard of in the annals of any public event. The workaholic journalist who edited his literary offspring – Thuglak News Weekly despite being ‘imprisoned’ on a hospital bed for months, seemed to be resting. The end came at 0405 hours in the morning at Apollo Hospital’s ICUĪ huge number of VVIPs went around the glass-topped box at his south Chennai residence throughout the day as he lay in state. Mr Cho is survived his wife Soundara, daughter Sindhuja, son Rajeevakshan Sri Ram and granddaughter Sakhi.
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