Sundara ramaswamy biography sample
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J.J.: Some Jottings
by Sundara Ramaswamy
translated by A.R.Venkatachalapathy
Novel as criticism - A.R.Venkatachalapathy
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Sundara Ramaswamy
இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க:சுந்தர ராமசாமி
Sundara Ramaswamy (May 30, 1931 - October 14, 2005) was one of the most important writers of modern Tamil literature. He made significant contributions to Tamil fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. He wrote poetry under the name Pasuvaiyya and founded the literary magazine Kalachuvadu.
Sundara Ramaswamy was one of the forerunners and foremost representatives of the 'little magazine’ movement that constituted the avant garde in Tamil literature for forty years starting from the 1950s. He was a proponent of pure literature as an alternative to the popular and political writing of that era. He was the convener of a literary gathering called Kaagangal (Crows). He taught the basics and norms of literature to the next generation through literary dialogue. Following K.N. Subramanyam (popularly known as Ka.Naa.Su), he became a central figure in the tradition of aesthetics centered on Tamil modern literature. He wrote realistic fiction with modernist aesthetics. He had a unique language - pithy, witty, and sparkling with modern poetic sensibility. In modern Tamil literature, there exists a tradition that can be identified as the Sundara Ramaswamy School of Thought.
Personal life
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Sundara Ramaswamy and Kalachuvadu: Kannan Sundaram in Conversation with Kavitha Muralidharan
Kavitha Muralidharan (KM): Vanakam (greetings). Can you share your thoughts about Sundara Ramaswamy as a family man and as a literary personality within the family?
Kannan Sundaram (KS): He was not somebody who would guide his children, shaping them in a very obvious manner, but he would create an environment that might have a positive impact on his children. All of us, my sisters and I—we were voracious readers; still are. That is obviously because of the environment that we had. There were books all around us. Even when he wants us to read a book, rather than give the book to us, he would have them put around the table. So that was the kind of influence, without saying this is a good book, read this, he will make sure that we see the book, and then we can make our own choice, either read them or not read them. And we might have different choices in selecting the books. So that’s the kind of subtle way in which he may have tried to shape us. But we all grew up very differently. My elder sister, she was a doctor, and then later in life, she decided to write. My younger sister went into music. So all of us, I think, had a cultural influence on us, in our own ways. His infl