‘Charitram’ (History) featured an article on ‘The Invasion of the Himalayas by Tamil Kings’. Ekambaranatha Iyer wrote on snakes, while Appuswami focussed on ‘Red Flowers’. In the section titled ‘Sastram’ (Science), that leading zoologist Prof. Swaminatha Iyer wrote on ‘Kalaimagal’ (The Arts) and Nilakanta Sastry on ‘Bhagiratha’s Tapas’, now better known as ‘Arjuna’s Penance’. Kalaimagal makes bold to venture out in accordance with the wishes of some of our leading men that we should have in Tamil also a similar vehicle for the uplift of the Tamil people.” Besides literature, it would also look at history and progress in science. Stating its objectives in the first issue, which came out in January 1932, the journal said, “There are excellent journals in foreign countries, and in Bengal, Maharashtra and Andhra in our own land. Ramachandra Iyer was named the Executive Editor. Raghava Iyengar of the Tamil Lexicon project. Together they convened a board of honorary editors from among the intellectuals of Madras to advise on content. Madras Law Journal (in English), to bring out a magazine focussed not only on Tamil literature and culture but also provide the Tamil reader “the best of modern knowledge in the arts and sciences of other lands”. Narayanaswami Iyer, who had for some years before been publishing the It’s into its 81st year now - and though the character of its content has changed, it remains a journal focussed on the serious reader. Kalaimagal could well be the oldest surviving Tamil monthly. The India Review in the late 1970s, I discovered that Catching up with the world of Tamil journalism, thanks to a series of articles on it written by R.A.
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