Ashoka Mitran

1. Ashoka Mitran • Ashoka Mitran (born September 22, 1931) is one of the most influential figures in post-independent Tamil literature.

2. Ashoka Mitran • Ashoka Mitran (born September 22, 1931) is one of the most influential figures in post-independent Tamil literature. • He began his literary career with the prize winning play "Anbin Parisu", followed by many short stories and novels. • A distinguished essayist and critic, he is the editor of the literary journal "Kanaiyaazhi". • He has written over 200 short stories, eight novels, some 15 novels besides other prose writings. • Most of his works have also been translated into English.

3. He worked for more than a decade at the Gemini Studios. • His experiences here and his interaction with people from the Tamil filmdom later took the form of his book "My Years with Boss". • It was from 1966 that he became a full-time writer and he took up the pseudonymof "Ashokamitran" . • In the 1980s most of his works were translated into English and he and his works became well-known all over India. • Some of his works were translated into other European languages and most Indian languages as well.

4. Pancake • Pancake was the brand name of the make up material that Gemini Studios brought in Truck loads.

5. Gemini Studios • Gemini Studios was launched when Thiruthuraipoondi Subramanian Srinivasan (aka. S.S.Vasan) (1903-1969) bought a film distribution concern at an auction and renamed it as Gemini Pictures also known as Gemini Studios. • Gemini Studios served as a breeding ground for innumerable artists and technicians for the South Indian film Industry. • The Gemini twins became a household symbol and the Gemini flyover was named after the original studio at that junction.

6. Miss Gohar • Date of Birth: • 1910, Lahore, British India [now in Pakistan]more • Date of Death: • 28 September1985more • Alternate Names: • Gohar Karnataki

7. Greta Garbo • Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish actress during Holloywood’s silent film period and part of its Golden Age. • Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Academy Award "for her unforgettable screen performances”and in 1999 was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

8. Vyjayanthimala Bali • Vyjayanthimala Bali (born on August 13, 1936, in Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India) is an Indian actress of the 1950s and 60s, who won a large number of awards for her acting and classical dancing achievements. Following her cinema career, she entered Indian politics, and became a Member of Parliament.

9. Rati Agnihotri • Rati Agnihotri was born on December 10, 1960 to a Punjabi family in Mumbai, Maharastra,India.She is a veteran Indian actress. Her portfolio mainly includes films in Hindi-Urdu,Tamil,Telugu,Telugu and Kannada.

10. Robert Clive

11. Robert Clive • Robert Clive was one of the Most flamboyant personalities in the history of British India. • He was only 19 when he began his career as a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St George. • Soon tiring of Paper Work, he became a soldier and fought many successful battles including the Carnatic wars, which established the company's rule in the South India. • Clive was given the Stewardship of Fort St George and later become Governor of Bengal. • The wealth he amassed in India led to his trial, in England, on charges of corruption. • Clive committed suicide in 1774.

12. Kothamangalam Subbu

13. Kothamangalam Subbu • Kothamangalam Subbu (November 10, 1910 - February 15, 1974), was a noted Padmashri-award winning poet,lyricist,writer,actor and director fromTamilnadu who authored the cult classic of Tamil novelThillana Mohanambal, later made into an enchanted movie. • According to novelist Ashokamitran's memoirs, Subbu functioned as the No.2 of the giant Gemini Studios of Chennai (formerly Madras), South India for over three decades and was a close associate of movie mogul SS Vasan, who also published the popular Tamil weekly Ananda Vikatan and established the Gemini Studios in Chennai.

14. Thillana Mohanambal • Director: • A.P. Nagarajan • Writer: • Kothamangalam Subbu (novel) • A classical bharathanatyam dancer and a nathaswaram player fall in love against the wishes of her family.This movie is about how they try to work things out and the hardships that they have to endure. Dance and music are used as an integral part of the story rather than a pastime.

15. Thillana mohanambal

16. Thillana mohanambal

17. S.D.S.Yogiar • S.D.S.Yogiar was a freedom fighter and a National Poet. His patriotic songs have won Gold Medals and the Government has nationalized his writings.

18. Krishnasastri • Devulapalli Krishnasastri is a Telugu poet and was born in East Godavari district.He was brought up in family of court-poets and he started writing poetry from a very young age. • Krishnasastri's works changed significantly after he met Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan in 1929. • Krishnasastri joined All India Radio in 1945 and has written number of plays for it.Andhra University has conferred the title Kalaprapoorna (The complete artist) on him in 1975. • He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award too. He was given the Padma Bhushan in 1976.

19. Sangu Subramanian • He was a tamil poet.

20. Haridranath Chatopadhyaya • Harindranath Chattopadhyay (April 2, 1898 - June 23, 1990, Mumbai) was a Bengali Indian English poet. He was the brother of Sarojini Naidu.

21. Frank Buchman • Frank Buchman (June 4, 1878 – August 7, 1961) was a ProtestantChristianevangelist who founded the Moral Re-Armament from 1938 until 2001.

22. MRA spreads its anti Communist ideas in South India • Moral Rearmament Army believed that Communism was evil and therefore wanted to wipe it out of the world. This group of 200 men and women from twenty different nations spread anti communist messages with the help of their stage performances such as dramas.

23. S.S.Vasan • S.S.Vasan (10 March1903 – 26 August1969) was a famous Indianfilm producer, director, writer, journalist and entrepreneur.

24. Vasan played into the hands of the MRA • There is no clear indication that Vasan, the owner of the Gemini Studios, was a Communist or not yet there are very clear hints that he was a prominent Communist of Chennai. The MRA spread its anti-Communist messages through their stage programmes and made the poets and writers of the South India hate Communism which was a great achievement. Vasan, who knew nothing of their intentions, was indeed fooled by MRA at his cost.

25. William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major EnglishRomanticpoet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

26. Alfred Tennyson • Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), much better known as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language.

27. John Keats • John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an Englishpoet, who became one of the key figures of the Romantic movement. The poetry of Keats was characterised by elaborate word choice and sensual imagery, most notably in a series of odes which remain among the most popular poems in English literature.

28. Percy Bysshe Shelley • Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822; was one of the major EnglishRomantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language.

29. Lord Byron • Lord Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. • He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.

30. T.S.Eliot • Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888–4 January 1965), was a poet, playwright, and literary critic. • He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. • Among his most famous writings are The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party and "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats".

31. The God That Failed • The God That Failed is a 1949 book which collects together six essays with the testimonies of a number of famous ex-Communists, who were writers and journalists. • The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of Communism. • The promotional byline to the book is "Six famous men tell how they changed their minds about Communism." • The six contributors were Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright.

32. Louis Fischer • Louis Fischer (29 February1896 – 15 January1970) was a Jewish-American journalist • . Among his works were a contribution to the ex-Communist treatise The God that Failed, as well as a biography of Mahatma Gandhi entitled The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. • This book was used as the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi. Fischer's wife, Markoosha Fischer, was also a writer.

33. André Gide • André Gide (22 November 1869—19 February 1951) was a Frenchauthor and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

34. Arthur Koestler • Arthur Koestler (5 September 1905,– 1 March 1983, London) was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies. • He was born into a HungarianJewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. • In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to instant international fame.

35. Ignazio Silone • Ignazio Silone (May 1, 1900 - August 22, 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author.He was born in the town of Pescina in the Abruzzo region and lost many family members, including his mother, in the 1915 Avezzanoearthquake. His father had died in 1911. Silone joined the Young Socialists group of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), rising to be their leader.

36. Richard Wright • Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an African-Americanauthor. Wright, the grandson of former slaves, was born on the Rucker plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, in Franklin County, just outside of Natchez .

37. Stephen Spender • Stephen Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965 .

38. Stephen Spender’s speech • Stephen Spender was specially invited to the Gemini Studios to enlighten the staff there with communist ideas. When Spender began his speech he was amazed to see the way he was being listened to. But soon, when he realized that his audience didn't follow him the least due to his accent, Spender's amazement turned to utter shock and embarrassment and he stopped his speech in the middle.

39. Stephen Spender &Communism • Stephen Spender was called to the Gemini Studios to talk to the staff there about Communism but what he spoke was of his struggles as a poet. Whatever he spoke, his talk was not followed by practically anyone. When Spender realized that his audience didn’t follow his talk, he stopped in utter shame to have made a talk to a deaf audience while the Gemini staff got dispersed in great humiliation because Spender’s accent failed them.

40. The failure of the book • The ‘God That Failed’ was written by six eminent writers who were attracted to Communism and abandoned it because they hated it later on. Communism was in its beginning, a God because it stood for equality and removal of class systems and poverty. While the Gods or incarnations before it achieved their goals, Communism failed in attaining its goals as it was a failure in itself.

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