Thirty Years A Lawyer: Thought Provoking Humour Soul Searching Satire in Lucid Indian Style

The intriguing initials which delighted a generation of sober and serious readers of "The Hindu' from about the mid 1920's to 1930's. The initials belonged to Shri S.V. Vijayaraghavachariar, an advocate from Thiruvanna malai. His prolific writing in "The Hindu" and "Ananda Vikatan" on the everyday events of life with a humorous perspective have delighted gene ration of readers.
Of S.V.V., the English essayist who made his bow regularly in 'The Hindu' an English civilian of the time Hilton Brown said in the course of an address before the East India Association.

"There is a man in Madras called S.V. Vijayaraghava chariar who is writing the most delicious stuff light as a feather, satirically humorous, not untender, most intimately revealing the Hindu life; splendid, spiteful stuff which can bear direct comparison of mutatis mutandis with the work of our own E.M. Delafield."

These collections are to be read, reread, treasured and read again and again. You can be sure to be delighted every time you read them.