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The extraordinary Alagu Subramaniam<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/h1>\n

\"Alagu<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>Dailymirror LK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Alagu at the centre (Family photo)<\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Alagu was born in 1910. He was the eldest son of judge A.R Subramaniam and wife Gnanamma and grew to be a striking handsome figure of over 6ft.tall<\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

He did not adjust well to the conservative life in Jaffna and missed his English girlfriend whom his parents had prevented from marrying<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Alagu Subramaniam (1910 \u2013 1971) was a barrister-at-law, short story, radio script writer and playwright who hailed from Jaffna. His father was a judge and his grandfather a literary personage. Alagu had successfully combined in himself, his father\u2019s legal career and his grandfather\u2019s literary genius. Alagu was a prominent figure in London\u2019s Bloomsbury literary circle1 in the 1930s and 40s. He wrote short stories that capture the behaviour of people whether it be Ceylonese during the colonial era or contemporary English life during and prior to the war. These stories were broadcast on the home and overseas services of the BBC. His short story \u2018The Mathematician\u2019 has been compared for its good-humoured raillery with one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history, Anton Chekhov. More recently in 2014, Prof. Gamini Fonseka, senior lecturer in English at Ruhuna University wrote a paper on the story \u2018Professional Mourners\u2019 which has attracted 4000 views from an international readership across the world. His subsequent review of the short stories compiled in the book The Big Girl which appeared in the Sunday Island dated June 23rd, 2019. These stories were also reviewed by an Australian, Rodney Hall, which appeared in The Sri Lankan e-paper Daily FT of February 16th, 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alagu was born in 1910. He was the eldest son of judge A.R Subramaniam and wife Gnanamma and grew to be a striking handsome figure of over 6ft. tall. He spent his childhood in Trincomalee. They lived in a government house within the fort with a sentry placed at the entrance. Alagu later came to Jaffna to attend high school. He completed his schooling at Jaffna Central College (JCC) and his Senior School Certificate (conducted by the University of Cambridge for Ceylon schools in those days), in Dec 1926 at the age of 16. Thereafter he was sent to England to study law. He went by ship with a photo of his sister in his possession which he was instructed to present to his brother in law to be, who was completing an Engineering degree at Imperial college.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alagu was admitted as a student at Lincoln\u2019s Inn (one of the 4 Inns of Court) on the 26th of April 1933 to do his bar exam. He was called to the English bar on June 25, 1941. These dates are from the black books of Lincoln\u2019s Inn6. He was called to the bar by the treasurer (head of the Inn), Sir Herbert Cunliffe. He had been proposed for the bar by William Cleveland-Stevens, one of the Inn\u2019s governing body known as benchers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alagu would have done his bar examination course with the Council of Legal Education (CLE) in London. In addition to passing the exams, to be called to the bar, Alagu would have had to \u201ckeep term\u201d by dining in the Hall of the Inn. They had to dine 6 times per term and do this for 12 terms (72 meals in all) which would take at least 3 years! This was a throwback to times when much of a student\u2019s legal learning was done in discussion with barrister members during mealtimes. Also, they had to be 21 years of age and have their names screened in the public rooms of their Inn for 8 days in the term they were to be called in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bloomsbury<\/span>
\nAlagu was a prominent figure in London\u2019s Bloomsbury literary circle. The famous authors Virginia & Leonard Woolf were part of this group, and it is highly probable that Virginia reviewed Alagu\u2019s stories when he presented them at the circle. He was one of the founders and editors of the literary magazine Indian Writing8. Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru were two of its eminent contributors. Alagu was also secretary of the London branch of Indian Progressive Writers\u2019 Association and was involved in the anti-colonial organisation Swaraj House. He worked as assistant to Sasadhar Sinha who opened the Bibliophile bookshop in the winter months of 1935 in London. Indian Writing was published infrequently during the war and had financial support from T S Eliot. They published articles, short stories and reviews. The wellknown writer R.K Narayan too, contributed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mulk Raj Anand was probably the most closely connected to the Woolfs, having worked for a while as editor at the Hogarth Press which was founded by them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meary James Tambimuttu was a Ceylonese poet who played a significant role in the literary scenes of London and New York. In 1939 he founded the literary magazine Poetry London which later became Poetry London-New York.<\/span>
\nAlagu was interviewed as the Bohemian with a glass of beer in his hand in The London Illustrated dated December 7, 1946. He said \u201cIntellectuals are silly, but quite harmless. Bloomsbury is a port of call in their education. There\u2019s no future in it.\u201d So much for Bloomsbury as a cradle of the intelligentsia!<\/span><\/p>\n

Return to Ceylon<\/span>
\nAlagu returned to his home in Jaffna in 1947. He was a brilliant lawyer and when requested to appear for someone, he usually did this impromptu without preparation and won the case. Having lived in England for a considerable time, he did not adjust well to the conservative life in Jaffna and missed his English girlfriend whom his parents had prevented from marrying. Although he could have had a successful legal career, he preferred his literary pursuits. Quote by Lester Hutchinson, D. es. L., former M.P. (British House of Commons) \u201cMr Subramaniam could have had a sound practice at the English Bar, but he preferred to pursue his literary work, which is of a higher order.\u201d Those who can recollect Alagu walking down the Cross streets of Jaffna when they were children, say how he would walk along with the air of a poet, always wore a suit, had longish hair and wore a scarf in the tropics, not for warmth, but for colour. He was frequently invited to speak at \u2018After Dinner Talks\u2019 at schools and for proposing a toast at functions. He was popular for his enthralling speeches filled with humour. Alagu\u2019s much younger cousin recalls that they hid from him because he used to stare at beautiful girls, simply because he liked to admire them. He eventually married a graduate teacher from Udupiddy Girls College, Miss Sellakandu to whom he dedicated his second book. They did not have any children. They lived in Uddupiddy, Sellakandu\u2019s hometown. This is where he passed away in 1971 ailing from throat cancer, aged 61.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Nagalingam Ethirveerasingham, Gold medallist at Tokyo Asian Games 1958 said, \u201cEveryone knows A.S. lived in a beautiful house in front of Vembadi hostel End. Every weekday I would see A.S. in a rickshaw going from his house to the Courts past Central. He was very fair, dressed like a barrister. I think he smoked a pipe. I always thought of him as an Englishman\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stories<\/span>
\nThe Big Girl & Other Stories is a collection of 17 short stories by Alagu. They recount scenes and behaviour of the Jaffna society in the colonial era. Alagu started writing them when he was in his late twenties whilst in England and they first appeared in the Indian Writing magazine in the early 1940s, \u2018Professional Mourners\u2019 appearing in the summer 1940 edition.<\/span><\/p>\n

These stories reflect scenes of Alagu\u2019s personal experiences of a bygone era. The Big Girl presents both the contrasts and continuities between past Ceylon and present day Sri Lanka while incorporating some of Alagu\u2019s biographical details. His second book Closing Time & Other Stories contains more stories set in London, a representation of the life of a foreign student living and studying in London, during the blitz of WWII as he had done. The story \u2018Single Room\u2019 is about a new student in London, looking for a room for himself. \u2018The Kid\u2019 features a law student who is also a writer. \u2018Liabilities\u2019 is about a barrister working as a manager of a bookshop and \u2018Closing Time\u2019 is about a group of writers and poets who move from one pub to another after each one closes.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1999 Raja Srikantan, chief editor of Thinakaran newspaper translated this story from Russian to Tamil. This translation is held in the British library. \u2018A Box of Matches\u2019 is a sardonic tale about the American, Indian and Ceylonese cultures where one is not in the habit of saying thank you, unlike the English. He writes how people annoy him by getting a match or a light from him without expressing thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n

In several stories, the manner in which mothers frantically arrange marriages for their sons who were about to go to England for further study, to prevent English women from \u2018catching\u2019 them reflected a common occurrence. In his case, he was too young to be married when he left Ceylon, but his parents wrote to his English girlfriend requesting she give him up. His father the judge, insisted he marry a Tamil girl with a large dowry to \u2018safeguard his future\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

In \u2018Cousin Thampoo\u2019 the comma in the last sentence placed differently would entirely change the story\u2019s meaning. In most stories, the final sentence has a comical or unusual twist which leaves the reader in contemplation. As Prof. S.W Perera, senior lecturer in English at University of Peradeniya writes in his journal article, \u201cAlagu Subramaniam captures life in Jaffna about a half a century ago with an immediacy and assuredness that others have attempted but not always succeeded\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

(This article is a shortened version of a tribute penned by his grandniece Premila Thurairatnam which was first published in the Ceylankan Nov 2020 issue)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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