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Sujatha - Tribute continued

Yesterday, Sunday, 2 March 2008, afternoon 4-15PM. Narada Gana Sabha in TTK Road, next to Arvind’s office.

Vijaya and I left house at 3-15 PM and reached the place by 3-45. A Condolence Meeting had been arranged to remember Sujatha and share the feelings. Three large photos were placed in a prominent place with floral respects. A really large basket with full of flowers and a large thattu (Thambalam) with fresh roses were also kept. Taking the hint, we two paid our floral respects to the great writer. Everyone did.

We entered the Hall – though we expected a decent crowd, we never imagined that the Hall would be so full half hour before the start. Shows how many people were attracted by Sujatha’s writings. When the programme started, the Hall was full.

Cine actor Parthiban, Kanimozhi, ManushyaPuthran, Cine Director Vasanth, Uyirmai publishing house had arranged this meeting. Kanimozhi came, greeted everybody (VIPs) individually and left in 15 minutes. Many spoke, shared their feelings with the audience. Parthiban was the Master of Ceremonies.

Raa ki Rangarajan started the proceedins; Crazy Mohan, Jayakanthan ( said it was Sujatha who gave Tamil the word KANINI meaning Computer), Indira Parthasarathy, Cine Star Sivakumar ( almost broke down, while speaking), Tirupur Krishnan (said, once Sujatha was asked: Thirukkural has 1330 kurals but why it is known in singular form Thirukkuarl and not in plural Thirukkuralkal, prompt came his reply: Thirukkural abhors KAL (kal = liquor) ), Charu Nivedita, Shivasankari, cartoonist Madan, CEO Pentasoft, Oviyar Jeyaraj, Natarajan former Director of DD, Kasturirangan of Kanaiyazhi, Prakash M Swamy, the journalist from USA, Murali of Sri Krishna Sweets, Vairamuthu, and Kamalahasan spoke.

Thunderous applause reverberated from the audience whenever Sujatha’s words were quoted. We left after 3 hours at 7-15PM but the meeting continued. I understand S.Ramakrishnan, Sudhangan, Thankar Bachan, and many others spoke later. Parthiban, Vasanth, ManushyaPuthran were totally unable to speak as they were crying openly!

I learnt that Kanimozhi had come to Sujatha’s house very early in the morning on the day of cremation, stayed there beyond the cremation time, performed all the rites and household things that a sister would do on her brother’s death. She is very close to Sujatha’s family, like a sister – it was a revelation!

For a detailed version of the meeting, read
http://maraboorjc.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post.html
For a descriptive narration of events at Sujatha’s house on the cremation day, read http://truetamilans.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post.html

Love,
Rajappa
11:15 am on 3 Feb

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    http://balaji_ammu.blogspot.com/2008/03/422-1.html

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