How Mrs. YGP wrote to Gandhi, spotted Jayalalithaa´s talent
(WorldNews India)

CHENNAI: Online publishing and marketing has taken away the winds of Chennai’s old world charm of pavement book sellers where one used to hit upon rare bibliographic treasures which are anytime good reads. The warmth with which such books- old melodies so to say- open up a world gone by is amazing. Last week one felt the same when among a pile of old books stacked by a pavement seller in Ashok Nagar, two such in that category gently fell into visibility: One was ‘I shall Not Hear the Nightingale’, a once much talked about novel by Kushwant Singh and the other was, ‘Mrs. YGP, A Class Apart’, a biography of the well-known educationist, by Lakshmi Devnath. They are...