Politics
When Cho Ramaswamy ‘Introduced’ Modi
Cho Ramaswamy (File photo)
The legendary satirist and public intellectual from Chennai Cho Ramaswamy is no more after a prolonged battle with his health. The most enduring memory of Cho Ramaswamy is from the annual Reader's Conference of his legendary Tughlaq magazine from back in January of 2008.
Over the past many decades the Tughlak Weekly Magazine in Tamil had become an institution of sorts cast in the satirical mould of its founder editor’s acerbic wit and politically sharp commentary.
The audience in that auditorium in Chennai in January of 2008, was introduced to Narendra Modi by Cho with his trademark acerbic wit and humor. Cho opened his introduction by taking the Congress President Sonia Gandhi to the cleaners for her controversial ‘merchant of death’ remark made a few weeks earlier in Gujarat during the 2007 Assembly Election Campaign in that state. By the time Cho had finished with his introduction the audience was already in raptures with cheers and whistles filling the auditorium. Narendra Modi had not even begun to speak yet.
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