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... and the postman knocked
MY PIECE on `Time' (Miscellany, January 7) has Reader Ejji K. Umamahesh asking an intriguing question to which I don't have an answer. Perhaps a reader can tell all of us how the connection was made from the "Meteorological Department building in Nungambakkam to fire the cannon at Fort St. George". Now that Reader Umamahesh has raised the question, I am as "curious about it" as he is.
Several readers have written or called to take me to task for the sloppy and cavalier writing of that introductory paragraph to the piece on Pammal Sambandam Mudaliar (Miscellany, January 14).
The title of Kamal Hassan's new film certainly triggered my recollection of Pammal Sambandam Mudaliar, but I agree linking both was unnecessary, though I have no doubt that a multifaceted talent like Kamal Hassan might well have found inspiration in the legendary, multi-talented PSM, even if the latter could not have been his "guru".
And my piece on the SIAA (Miscellany, December 10) had several readers recalling the old Park Fair and all its fun which included: an African boxer called Terry knocking out with this first punch a local boxer called Arunachalam and doing something similar the following week, the outrage of the spectators on both occasions hastening his departure home thereafter; a top-hatted stilt-walker whose long trousers so hid his stilts that a young boy wanted to know how he had grown so tall, only to be advised "Walk with l-o-n-g strides for a year; and an untenanted car which inexplicably went round and round in a fixed circle.
But the piece also brought a question from reader T. K. Visweswaran who wonders what happened to "Ashok Vihar, which was in the SIAA complex". Apparently it was run by the Corporation's Health Department and, manned by a popular Dr. Sambandam, "promoted health activities as well as sports and games for children". Any information, readers?
S. MUTHIAH
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