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The publication ‘No.1 Vellala Street’, a recollection of the aboriginal beingness of cartoonist, writer and playwright T.S. Sridhar alias Bharaneedharan alias Marina, was released connected Saturday.
While speaking astatine the lawsuit which doubled arsenic centenary solemnisation of T.S. Sridhar, N. Ram, manager of The Hindu Publishing Group said, Marina was 1 of the 3 originative identities of Sridhar. “[He used] his ain sanction arsenic a skilled cartoonist and illustrator for Ananda Vikatan; arsenic an influential and acclaimed playwright, memoirist and writer of witty and humorous articles and books, helium was Marina; arsenic Bharaneedharan, helium was a prolific chronicler of India’s spiritual and taste heritage. It is antithetic for idiosyncratic to bash perchance arsenic good successful 3 fields implicit a lifetime,” helium added.
Mr. Ram said, scientist Howard Gardner talks astir however puerility of a definite benignant tin beryllium a cradle for creativity. “What Gardner says is, if during aboriginal beingness children person the accidental to observe overmuch astir their satellite and to bash truthful successful a comfy exploring way, they volition accumulate invaluable superior of creativity. Marina’s No.1 Vellala Street, bears witnesser to the plausibility of Gardner’s thesis,” helium added.
In Marina’s recollection, the doors of No.1 Vellala Street were ever unfastened to everybody, helium said.
Maalan (V. Narayanan), elder writer and writer, said, Sridhar encouraged young people, and had assurance successful them. He noted that Sridhar was a singular editor, and he never utilized his presumption as a journalist for his idiosyncratic gains. He was a bully translator too, helium added.
T.S. Narayanaswamy, creator and nephew of Sridhar said, helium ne'er compromised connected his principles oregon beardown views and remained fiercely autarkic till the precise end.
T.S. Tirumurti, erstwhile Permanent Representative of India to the U.N., said, Sridhar himself had translated the book Chinna Vayathinile into English, and helium called it ‘No.1 Vellala Street’, aft the code wherever helium lived.
“But someway the publication languished for years, forgotten, until his brother, T.S. Gopalakrishnan, salvaged the publication for us. I tin accidental with condemnation that this publication ranks connected a par with immoderate of the best, similar Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer. It’s successful Marina’s ain unsocial voice,” helium said.
Renowned creator and illustrator Maniam Selvan, seasoned theatre histrion ‘Kala Nilayam’ Chandru, Keshav Venkatraghavan, eminent creator and cartoonist and Sudha Seshayyan, director, SASTRA, Chennai, were among those who spoke astatine the event.
Two scenes from Marina’s celebrated ‘Thanikudithanam’ were besides enacted connected the occasion.
