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When the postman knocked
S. MUTHIAH
HAVING JUST returned to Madras after a break, I'm just catching up with all that the postman delivered during my absence. Here are just a couple of those contributions.
* Reader T. Venkataraman wonders whether Dr. S. T. Achar, "the father of paediatrics", whose book on paediatrics is still standard fare for medical students and "who was responsible for the Government's Children Hospital", and Dr. N. Madanagopalan, "the authority on gastro diseases and in particular the liver", should not have been included in Dr. Saranya Nandakumar's `Hall of Fame' (Miscellany, November 22).
There's no end to such lists and I am sure other readers would have many more names to add to them. But you just cannot include them all.
* Reader T. K. Visweswaran writes that while remembering Selvapathy Chettiar (Miscellany November 29) "we should not forget" his aide, S. Pakkirisamy, or other labour leaders such as D.M. Kannappan, Kesava Pillai and S. C. C. Anthonypillai (kinsman of S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, who first mooted federalism in Ceylon), who were connected with Binny's. He adds that Selvapathy Chettiar is remembered in a park's name on Strahan's Road, Choolai, Kannapar Thidal commemorates Kannappan and Kesava Pillai has a park named after him on D'Mellow's Road "behind Edward Textile Mills (now FCI godown)". Now those mills are something new to me. Could anyone shed more light on them?
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