Padmanabhan to meet C.Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), who was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu then. Even after knowing why Padmanabhan quit his job, he advised him to undo his mistake and asked him to take up his job again. Padmanabhan, however, was firm and stood his ground. Rajaji tricked him by giving a recommendation letter and making it look like Padmanabhan came to him asking for him to recommending Vasan to give Padmanabhan his old job back. Padmanabhan, knowing how clever Rajaji was, opened the letter as soon as he left his house. After reading the letter, he decided that he would not give S.S.Vasan this letter as he considered this bailing his dignity for a job. After a three-year stint in the Vikadan, Padmanabhan joined Jayabharati, a local daily. Its editor Mr. R. Narayana Iyengar, a full-fledged Swadeshi was the one who recruited Padmanabhan. Narayana Iyengar was so ardent a Swadeshi that his paper would advertise only for Swadeshi Products and nothing else. On his third year in Jayabharati, when he and his colleague and best friend Kalki were fighting on whether Bharathiar was a Mahakavi (Great Poet) or not, where Padmanabhan said he was and Kalki opposed, he posed a question and answered the readers on who a Mahakavi was. "One whose work is timeless.. Didn't Bharathiar's work stand the test of time?" he quoted in the local daily Soon after this, he was offered two jobs as a journalist. The first on was from a few of his friends, Raali, Thumilan and R. Parthasarathy who had started their own and the first illustrated Tamil weekly called the Hanuman. He turned the offer down. After a few months, due to financial problems, the magazine had folded up. The second offer was from M.S.Kamath, who was the founder and editor of the English weekly, The Sunday Times, who gave him a job in its own Tamil weekly, The Hindustan. Fortunately, he took the job. Bharathiar could also be called the reason for Padmanabhan to get the job in The Hindustan as M.S.Kamath was a huge fan of Bharathiar. His years in The Hindustan were fruitful. He had a better and a more educated audience, he was able to reveal a lot of information about Bharathiar to the world. "I set out to Puducherry (Now Pondycherry) to gather more information about Bharathiar fully geared with a Rolleiflex Camera" he said. He