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The postman knocked

Reader S. Srinivasan recalls that `RMS’ Sundaram Iyer (Miscellany, June 18) was better known as `Mail Sorter’ Sundaram Iyer and regularly worked on the Boat Mail (Rameswaram Express), travelling from Trichinopoly to Egmore working in the RMS van where he regaled his colleagues with Tyagaraja kritis. In Madras, he’d stay with T. Aravamuda Iyengar, an advocate, who lived for years in Triplicane, then in T’Nagar and, later, in Mandaveli. Silk jibba-clad, angavasthram-adorned Sundaram Iyer would cycle everywhere in Madras, always humming a Thyagaraja composition. He died probably in the early 1970s in Srirangam, thinks reader Srinivasan.

* G.V. Kripanidhi may or may not have been with the Chalapathi Rao edited National Herald, but he edited the Indian News Chronicle, a short-lived North Indian daily, writes reader Jaiboy Joseph. The Liberator, reader Joseph adds, could not be called a Justice Party paper. Its owner, Dr. A. Krishnaswamy, a London School of Economics product, was “on his own trip”. His father, A. Ramaswami Mudaliar, however, edited for a while Justice, which certainly had “strong leanings towards the Justice Party” and did influence Krishnaswamy.

S. MUTHIAH

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