Symbols, Women and Tamil Nadu Politics

Symbols, Women and Tamil Nadu Politics C S Lakshmi WITH December the Bharti Centenary year comes to an end. Every small women's association in Tamil Nadu has this year bought the photograph of handsome Bharti with his huge mous- tache and turban and held a function to celebrate his ideas. Every little school, college, women's organisation and literary group has spent the whole year either holding debates or talks on Bharti and performing his famous 'Pan- chali Sabadam. Tamil magazines have ferretted out every remote relative el his and quoted as many incidents as possible from his life.