Aaah – a novel based on hallucinations, which was published in Ananda Vikatan every week. The works are not listed in chronological order.
These words have been adopted by many software companies of today for translating their softwares/software products to Tamil. He is known for coining new Tamil words for computer terms like password, file, directory, etc. He initiated the development of advanced word processing before the days of personal computers. As an engineer, he was a forward thinker and he was the key person behind the development of the Electronic Voting Machine in India. He worked first in Civil Aviation Department of Government of India and later for Bharat Electronics Limited in Bangalore, India before his retirement to Chennai, India, where he lived till his last days. His Kolaiyuthir Kalam was an exciting ghost-themed novel. His first short story was published in the Kumudam magazine in 1962. Sivaji, a minor magazine from Tiruchirappalli, published a story during his student days.
Srirangathu Devathaigal ( Angels of Srirangam) is a series of short stories based on incidents in Srirangam during 1940s and 50s which appeared in Ananda Vikatan. His writing interests were largely inspired by the short stories and serials published in popular Tamil magazines. Later he studied engineering in Electronics from Madras Institute of Technology, where he was a friend of Abdul Kalam (who later became the President of India). He graduated in the 1954 batch with a BSc in Physics (1952–54). Sujatha did his schooling in the Higher Secondary School for Boys, Srirangam and attended the St. Sujatha Rangarajan was born in Triplicane, Chennai but spent his childhood in Srirangam near Tiruchirapalli under the care of his paternal grandmother owing to his father's frequent transfers in his job. He began to spend more time reading, especially old rare Tamil literature and writings on the latest developments in information technology and computing. In his later days he restricted his writing to essays such as Katradhum-Petradhum. The Ganesh-Vasanth pair was based on James Hadley Chase's characters, Vic Malloy and his sidekick. Ganesh is a level-headed, senior advocate and Vasanth is his flirtatious junior advocate. He also immortalized Ganesh-Vasanth – an imaginary advocate pair serving as the main characters in most of his detective stories.
Among his popular novels are Pirivom Sandhipom (not related to the movie of the same name), Rathham Ore Niram, and Kolaiyudhir Kaalam. Most of his early novels/stories were made as movies, including Priya, Gaytri, Karaiyellam Senbagapoo and Anandha Thandavam, among others.īrought up in Srirangam, Trichy, and having spent most of the later part of life in Bangalore, he described both places vividly in his various writings.
His notable movies included Vikram, Thiruda Thiruda, Boys and Sivaji. Later he contributed as script/screenplay author for several Tamil movies. At one point, his writings were appearing in numerous Tamil weeklies and journals simultaneously, including Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam, Kungumam, Kalki and Dhinamani Kadhir. His popularization of technology was one of his greatest contributions – starting with his Silicon Chip writing in Dinamani Kadhir and Yen, Yedharku, Eppadi in Junior Vikatan. His identification with the masses, and his uncanny adoption of their way of talking, behavior, mindset and slang, helped make him popular across multiple demographic segments. His works stood out during a time when Tamil writing was dominated by social/family dramas and historical novels. Widely read and knowledgeable, he presented his knowledge in simple Tamil. An Electronics-Engineer by profession, he was proficient in the language of technology. Penning with his wife's name, Sujatha's Tamil literary career spanned more than four decades. As an author he inspired many authors, including Balakumaran, Madhan. Sujatha was also an engineer he supervised the design and production of the electronic voting machine ( EVM) during his tenure at Bharat Electronics Limited ( BEL), a machine which is currently used in elections throughout India. He had a wide readership, and served for a brief period as the editor of Kumudam, and has also written screenplays and dialogues for several Tamil films. He was one of the most popular authors in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. He authored over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. Rangarajan ( – 27 February 2008), better known by his allonym Sujatha, was an Indian author, novelist and screenwriter who wrote in Tamil.