![]() It was also said that Sashikala, her friend, lent her a hand in the spanking. It was said that the poor fellow was summoned to Poes Garden and was literally beaten with sandals with a ferocity that left him bruised and bleeding. There were rumours in Chennai one morning in March 1999 of how Jayalalithaa beat up her auditor for messing up some transactions of hers, which helped the opposition to file a case of corruption against her. ‘The fellow came to me shivering with fright. “ ‘It is true’, said Cho Ramaswamy, noticing the disbelief on my face. I cite three paragraphs from chapter 15 of COCCS, which quotes Cho Ramaswamy, a noted observer of Tamil Nadu’s political scene for over half a century. Offensive passages included in this 2006 book had been delicately chopped off to be in the good books of ‘Amma’. It seems to me, as a sanitized rip off from Vaasanthi’s previous book on Tamil Nadu politics, entitled ‘Cut-Outs, Caste and Cine Stars’ (2006 hereafter shortened as COCCS for this review). ![]() Despite the front cover blurb from The Hindu, extolling it’s essence as, ‘Fascinating…a required read’, the quality of this work is sub-standard. ![]() ![]() The author Vaasanthi, is a noted Tamil woman novelist. Book Review: Amma – Jayalalithaa’s Journey from Movie Star to Political Queen, by Vaasanthi, Juggernaut Books, New Delhi, 2016, 175 pages.Īt last, a short English biography on actress-politician Jayalalitha, the current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India, had appeared.
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