AIR’s early days
S. MUTHIAH
maiden home Of All India Radio, Madras
For long I’ve been trying to trace the house on Marshall’s Road that housed the first All India Radio station.
A note a reader has sent tells me it was called East Nook and was next to the house of Dr. George Zachariah, a leading ophthalmic surgeon of the time.
The note also tells me that the first Editor of Vanoli, the popular bi-monthly featuring the Station’s programmes, was T.C. Theetharappan, better known as Deepan, who was the son of Rasikamani T.K. Chidambaranatha Mudaliar.
And a third item in the note states that the first permanent artists of AIR Madras were advocate Sundaram Iyer’s children, S. Rajam, a nonagenarian now, whose paintings of the Trinity are still considered the best representations of the trio, his two sisters, Jayalakshmi and Sarasa, and their younger brother S. Balachander.
I don’t know whether the other two siblings were also involved with AIR, but is there any other radio station anywhere in the world that owed so much to four members of one family?
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