Persons who inspired me-1

I came across this person’s writings during my HSC. I don’t know really how many of my close ones aware about his writings. He is initially known to me only as a writer, but when days passed I realized that he is a writer (books, drama, dialogues and screenplay), engineer and scientist. The thing by which he inspired me is his way of narration and new form of Tamil writings. Some of you now might have realized who I am writing about, he is writer Sujatha aka Rangarajan.

Sujatha (May 3, 1935 - February 27, 2008) was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan, author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. 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 movies. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)



If you are interested to read books and not having any idea about the author to start with, then your choice should be sujatha. Because he is the only writer in tamil who I know, has written stories years beyond which suits the present trend. I started to read his writings from “En iniya iyandhira”, a story about a robo dog, which has Artificial Intelligence. I think he wrote the story during 1980s. And the next part to the same book too is released during the same period. These are the two books where our latest blockbuster movie “Endhiran” is inspired. He is not only talented in writing Sci-fi stories. His story on love “pirivom sandhipom” is a biggest hit in Ananda vikatan. When I assumed he is master story writer(i.e is lengthy stories), his short stories surprised me a lot.

But he is not only a story writer his columns are of great success in both Ananda vikatan and Kanayali. He had written several drama scripts and dialogues for famous movies like Iruvar, Kannathil Muthamittal, Aayitha Ezhuthu, Indian, Mudhalvan etc. when I thought he was versatile writer, I surprised by an information from my dad, because he is one of the inventor of our E-polling machine. He did his engineering in MIT, Chennai. He worked first in Civil Aviation Department of Government of India and later for Bharat Electronics Limited in Bangalore. He initiated the development of advanced word processing before the days of personal computers.

The things which I got inspired from him are he never stopped to learn things till his journey of life stopped. He is specialized in so many fields, many personalities had said that we can discuss any kind of topic with him. Its hard to be a genius like him, but its easy to follow his footsteps and learn things. Because our country needs more creators in whatever field we operate. I got inspired from his stories and columns, I hope this small piece of my writings about this great man will inspire you.