The lec-dem on original tunes of Subrahmanya Bharati by his great grandson Rajkumar Bharathi was brilliant and it brought tears into everyones eyes. Sangita Kalanidhi-designate C Lalitha had an interesting anecdote to share. In the final years of his life, Bharati, while working for the Swadesamitran, lived in a one-room tenement on TP Koil Street and another room in the same building was occupied by Lalitha’s father-in-law, then a young man and a few of his friends. One evening Bharati came home in a rickshaw with his month’s pay-packet. On alighting he paid the rickshaw-puller the fare whereupon the latter, hoping for a little more said that he had many mouths to feed. Bharati immediately made over his entire pay!
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Bharat’s wife was naturally upset over this and the young men in the next portion on coming to know, traced the rickshaw puller and managed to retrieve a substantial part of the money and returned it to Bharati so that his home-fires could burn. In later years, Lalitha’s father-in-law would often recall this and chuckle and say that even he had been of service to Bharati and therefore the nation! (courtesy - sriramv@wordprocess.com)
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