When Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai enthralled students at Yale University

When Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai enthralled students at Yale University

There is an apocryphal story that testifies to the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai’s [1909-69] command of English language. Anna, as he is fondly called, was at America’s Yale University as a Chubb Fellow in 1968 when he was asked to construct a sentence in English using the word “because” three times consecutively. Anna was said to have famously replied: “No sentence ends with because, because, because is a conjunction.” This clever response, along with his speeches in the Rajya Sabha and his travel accounts from the United

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