Today, 25.4.2017, was an amazing day. Today, I was going to get the State Award for
Best Translator for the year 2016 from
the CM, Edappadi K Pazhaniswamy!!
Yesterday, many of my father’s friends called and wished me. At 8:00 am today, we reached Tamil Valarchi
Iyakkagam in Egmore. I was wearing a
green lehanga. There, we waited for
sometime. There were 10 of us who were
getting the Best Translator Award, and I was the youngest of them all.
After sometime, the people in Tamil Valarchi Iyakkagam
themselves took the 10 of us and our families to the Secretariat, where we will
be receiving our awards. They told that
only the people who were getting the awards should go inside the room. The others, that is, our families, should
wait outside. Inside the room, they made
us sit in order. I was sitting beside
Uma Balu aunty, who translated an English book, which is the biography of Steve
Jobs into Tamil. We became friends and
took photos.
Then, we had a practice session, of how we will receive the
award for the CM. Then we again went
into the room. After sometime, they
called us for the real award distribution.
I was a little nervous. I was not
VERY nervous, because I did not need to make a speech in front of the people,
as there was very less time and a lot of awards to give out. When my turn came, I greeted the CM and he
put a green colored shawl around me.
Then he gave me my award. There
was also a cheque of 1 lakh rupees!! It
was inside a leather pouch, which was stuck to the front of the award with
cellotape. It also had a small photo of
Dr. J. Jayalalitha.
When I came out of the hall, all the people, half of whom I
don’t even know, came and wished me.
They told that to do something difficult like translating books in my
age (12 years) was because of God’s blessing.
Then, I came out of the building and again went back to Tamil Valarchi
Iyakkagam.
We had lunch. My
father told that, as I did not have a bank account of my own, the 1 lakh rupees
cheque has to be changed to my mother’s name (which was already in my name) in
order to put it in her account. When we
were waiting for the new cheque, the award function came in the news in Jaya
Plus channel for two times. As soon as
we got the cheque, we came home. It was
a wonderful experience today, and I will write more books and get more awards
like this.
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