More on Mylapore

WITH REFERENCE to Bhama Rajagopal's article, "Much ado about something" in Metroplus dated April 16, K.S. Krishnaswamy writes:

There is a mention that Thiruvalluvar and Thirugnanasambandar were born in Mylapore. Though it is widely accepted that Thiruvalluvar was born in Mylapore, certainly Thirugnanasambandar was born only in Sirkazhi but came to Mylapore on a religious sojourn and performed a miracle by bringing back to life Poompavai from the urn containing her ashes.

S. Radhakrishnan is not the first President of India as mentioned in the article but its second, the first being Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

S. Varadachari was a judge of the Federal Court of India presided over by Sir Maurice Gwyer, the other eminent judge being Mohammed Zafrullah Khan. The Supreme Court came into being after Independence replacing the Federal Court.

I am not sure whether any King of England was a guest of the famous advocate S. Srinivasa Iyengar as mentioned in the article.

Perhaps, the author meant the Prince of Wales. But I doubt very much whether such a staunch nationalist like S. Srinivasa Iyengar, who became the President of the Indian National Congress, could entertain him as a guest. I would like to be enlightened on this point.

About Rukmini Devi, it has been mentioned that she moved from Mylapore to Thiruvanmiyur to establish the Kalakshetra.

The great lady established the Kalakshetra well within the precincts of the Theosophical gardens at Adyar in the mid 1930s and moved it to a very spacious location at Thiruvanmiyur only after a decade or two after Kalakshetra was established.

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