Ramaswami: After the initiation by LeftWord, the publisher Bharathi Puthakalayam in Tamil Nadu took many commendable steps to lay the ground for this event. The target of 10,000 reading events and sale of 1,00,000 copies of the Manifesto was fixed. In order to make it possible a fresh translation in Tamil was planned. M Sivalingam, a Marxist scholar, was roped in for translation. He did a great work in attempting the translation as simple as possible without diluting the content of the monumental work of Marxist founders. In fact, Sivalingam even studied German language in order to understand some of the intricate words of the Manifesto which was published in that language first.