![]() ![]() Then he went on to explain the need for nationalist minded people from all walks of life to remain outside politics and enrich public discourse and strengthen democratic traditions. In hisĬharacteristic humour he said, “Any party I join will lose the election”. ![]() In one meeting in Mumbai RSS office I asked him to join the BJP. RSS was able to attract a vast majority of the people and draft their strength towards hundreds of social welfare projects.Īfter 1980 when the BJP was formed he had great hopes and also met BJP leaders frequently. He prevailed upon the then RSS leadership to reach out to the people through public debates and discussions. After the fall of the then Janata government ostensibly on the issue of dual membership, Cho came closer to the RSS. Yet Cho could manage to publish articles and passages full of criticism camouflaged in innocuous looking words laced with double meanings.Įmergency brought Cho closer to the then anti-Congress leaders especially those in the Jan Sangh. ![]() Though Thuglak was not banned, unlike Organiser and The Motherland and some other journals, it was subject to strict censorship. It was no surprise that he was one of the prime targets of censorship during Emergency. A bold and incorrigible critic, he had the knack of inflicting sharp criticism without offending and could laugh at his own faults too. Cho acted in as many as 190 films, practised as an advocate, became a dramatist but excelled in what he was probably born for-start a satire magazine “Thuglak”-in 1970. Karunanidhi of the DMK was a script writer, MGR and Jayalalithaa were actors and their worst critic Cho Ramaswamy was part of the same celluloid world. Cho reportedly was restless while watching the funeral of Jayalalithaa on television.Ī unique feature of Tamil Nadu politics is the immense contribution of the silver screen to the political life of the state. Ironically his friend from silver screen to politics Jayalaithaa (Ammu, as he knew her) was also in the same hospital but both of them could not meet due to health reasons. Survived by his wife Soundra Ramaswamy, son Sriram, daughter Sindhu and a huge fan following of admirers, Cho Ramaswamy, 82, died due to cardiac arrest at 4:30 AM on December 7, at Apollo Hospital in Chennai where he was receiving treatment for respiratory problems. Cho Ramaswamy, the versatile personality and founder editor of Tamil satire journal “Thuglak” was one of the longer lasting advisors to the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa, who passed away just a day and a half before Cho died after prolonged illness. It is probably rarest of rare coincidence that a political personality’s trusted advisor follows him or her into the other world hours after the former’s last journey. ![]()
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