Kamala Gopalaswami
Credit: Special arrangement
Mysuru: A book on one of the earliest radio announcers of Karnataka would be released in Mysuru on January 26 (Monday).
Retired manager of Nvidia India Limited M G Rajanikanth will release the book on his mother Kamala Gopalaswamy.
Rajanikanth is the son of M V Gopalaswamy, who launched a private radio station in Mysuru on September 10, 1935, with the name that went on to become the official name of the national radio service - All India Radio (AIR).
In 1957, Akashvani was given as AIR's on-air name. At present, Akashvani is officially used instead of AIR.
The book ‘Deemantha Mahile Kamala Gopalaswamy’, written by retired station director of AIR in Mysuru M S Vijaya Haran, has been published by Samskruthi Book Agencies.
It will be released at Dr M V Gopalaswamy Shishuvihara, under Gopalaswamy Educational Institutions, in Lakshmipuram, Mysuru, at 11 am.
While chairman of the institutions Dr A S Chandrashekar will preside over the event, correspondent N R Manjunath and publisher Samskruthi Subramanya will be present. Shishuvihara (pre-school) was the first such initiative in South India in 1928 by Gopalaswamy, a Psychology professor.
Writer G P Rajarathnam penned the famous Shishu Geethegalu (children’s poems) exclusively for the students of the Shishuvihara.
Besides being the radio announcer in Akashvani during its initial days, Kamala Gopalaswamy managed the Shishuvihara for decades.