MAIN POINTS of poets and pancakes 1. The make-up room of the Gemini Studios was in a building that used to be Lord Clive’s Stable. 2. The dazzling incandescent light trapped the men in ‘fiery misery’. 3. The make-up department comprised people coming from many states. It was a real example of-national integration. 4. The chief make-up men were engaged for the hero and heroine. The senior assistant was for humber two’ hero and heroine. There was a unior assistant make-up man for the main comedian. The ‘office-boy’ was responsible for the make-up of the crowd. 5. The ‘office-bo was not abo but a man in his early forties. 6. He entered the Studios to become a star hero, director, script writer or lyrics writer but ended up as the ‘office-boy’. 7. Subbu was no. 2 in the Gemini Studios. 8. Subbu gave direction and definition to the Gemini Studios in its glorious years 9. He was a many-sided genius who used all his energy and creativity for the advantage of his ‘Boss’. 10. Subbu was a good poet and wrote a novel. 11. He was an amazing actor and a charitable soul ready to help everyone. 12. The ‘office-boy was jealous of Subbu. He considered Subbu cause of all his woes and neglect. 13. The legal adviser, a lawyer, was also a part of the Story Department. 14. He was a dead-wit ,a lonely man of cold-reason. He was a misfit in the establishment. 15. The Studios served as a host to the MRA, a group of 200 persons. 16. The MRA presented two plays in a highly professional manner. Their sets and costumes were copied for years. 17. Stephen Spender, an English poet visited the Gemini Studios. His visit was a total disaster. 18. There was so much communication gap that neither the English poet nor the audience knew what was happening there. 19. The people at the Studios wore khadi and worshipped Gandhi. But beyond that they had no political understanding or leaning. 20. But the people at the Studios were allergic to Communism. They considered Communists as Godless people who created violence and unrest. 21. The narrator after several years read a book ‘The God That Failed’. One of the essayist, was Stephen Spender. 22. He was the same English poet who had visited the Gemini Studios years ago.