Aiyar, Krishnaswami : Moderate lawyer-politician appointed Judge of Madras High Court in 1909.
... Amrita, "Finally one day, at about six in the evening, my friend Krishnaswami Chettiar and I started from Muthialpet, a suburb of Pondicherry ... and proceeded towards the beach where Sri Aurobindo's house stood." That was the Raghavan House in rue St. Louis. They walked the whole distance, the teenaged boy and the adult. Krishnaswami wheeled his cycle as he walked alongside. The evening had set in... Amrita got his first glimpse of Sri Aurobindo. It came about in this way. ' Munsiff = an officer trying suits at the lowest civil court. Page 355 Amrita had a neighbour, Krishnaswami Chettiar, a well-to-do man who was a great devotee of Bharati, to whom he rendered all possible help. Because of Bharati, Chettiar had intuitively formed a profound respect for Sri Aurobindo. But... threes and went home." That is to say, all but one. Our Amrita waited "not Page 360 knowing what to do." Then Ramaswamy came and told the youth that Bharati, Srinivasachari, V. V. S. Aiyar, were going to pay their respects to Sri Aurobindo. He asked Amrita, "Do you intend to see Sri Aurobindo with Bharati and others? Or with the inmates?" Amrita was in a dither. It was already past seven ...
... cast, 620; the Divine Charter, 622; Eden and Brindavan, 623ff; a dream and a vision, 624; handling of the hexameter, 626ff Ahmed, Asanuddin, 259 Aiyar, S. Doraiswami, 530, 579, 706 Aiyar, V. Krishnaswami, 221 Aiyar, Nagaswami, 378 Aiyar, V. V. S., 266, 378, 391,405,525 Akbar, Emperor, 8, 11, 293 Ali, Muhammad, 527 Alt, Shaukat, 527 Alipur Case (Manicktolla Bomb Case), 310ff ...
... Aurobindo. Hearing must be translated into vision. Day after day, night after night, this was my sole thought. Two years passed by. Finally one day, at about six in the evening, my friend Krishnaswami Chettiar and I started from Muthialpet, a suburb of Pondicherry,—near about our present Sports Ground and proceeded towards the beach where Sri Aurobindo's house stood. We walked the whole distance... beach He thought it would be burdensome to carry a cycle with us and we would not be free to walk about as we liked. That was the only reason why we went to Sri Aurobindo's house. A word about Krishnaswami—who is no longer in the land of the living—would not be out of place. He was a well-to-do man of Muthialpet and a great devotee of Bharati—the great poet and national worker. He used to give all... I used to go with Ramaswami Iyengar to Villenour or some other villages around Pondicherry. Several times Bharati joined us. When he was in the party, the expenses would be borne by the late Krishnaswami Chetty of Muthialpet. With Bharati we could not remain out at night. If Bejoykanta accompanied us, we had to come back by all means before 10 p.m. because Sri Aurobindo used to take his meal between ...
... India, a Tamil extremist paper in Madras. His writings and editorials breathed fire and brimstone, and so immediately overpowering were his patriotic songs that the Moderate leader, V. Krishnaswami Aiyar, insisted on financing the printing of 10,000 copies of the poems for free distribution. As in Bengal, as in Madras and Maharashtra and the Punjab, everywhere in India there was this new ...
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