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An Englishman, a poet (or an editor) visited the Gemini Studios sometimes in 1952. He was given a very big welcome there but his visit remained an unexplained mystery. As Asokamitran, write a page of your diary entry stating your experience of his visit.

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Madras 24th November,

It was few months after Frank Buchman’s MRA’s visit telephone lines of the my big boss started buzzing. Once again the whole shooting stage of Gemini Studios was cleared to welcome the visitor — a poet from England. Our Gemini Staff knew or heard only of Wordsworth, Tennyson, Keats, Shelly, Byron and Eliot, we kept guessing who the visiting poet was now!

The top men of The Hindu took the initiative S.S. Vasan, The Boss of Gemini Studios an editor of the Tamil Weekly Ananda Niketan was giving him a big welcome. I thought that the Englishman was not a poet but an editor. That was all known at the studios. At least around four in the afternoon, the poet (or the editor) arrived. He was a tall English man, very serious and of course, unknown to all of us. The Boss read out a long speech in his honour almost in general terms. Then the poet spoke before the patient audience. But no one knew what he was talking about. His accent, his tone defeated all attempts to understand what he was saying. The whole thing lasted about an hour. All left confused. The poet also looked pretty confused feeling imbalance of his talk. His visit remained an unexplained mystery for all. I will never hope to meet such a cranky fellow in my life.

Asokamitran

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