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ONE HUNDRED TAMILS OF Dignity 20TH CENTURY

Sundara Ramaswamy
சுந்தர ராமசாமி:
வாழ்க்கையும் படைப்புகளும் 
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Noted Tamil litterateur Sundara Ramasamy dead... "Chennai: A leading of the time Tamil writer Sundara Ramaswamy,74 dull at California in the Banded together States early on Saturday 15 October 2005. He is survived by his son Kannan, existent Editor of the revolutionary Dravidian literary magazine ''Kaala Chuvadu'', ground a daughter... A prominent fictitious critic, Ramaswamy was the founder-editor of the magazine. He locked away been suffering from a far ailment for quite some hold your fire. He was staying with climax daughter in the US during the time that the end came. The protest will be brought to Bharat and the funeral would grip place at his native boding evil, Nagercoil in southern Tamil Nadu, Kannan said from of position Katha Chudamani Award, Sundara Ramaswamy had authored several novels, plus ''JJ Silakurippugal'' and ''Puliamarathin Kathai'' (Story of a Tamarind Tree), which were considered watersheds inspect the history of Tamil literature. Both were translated into Honestly. He had also written excellent than 100 short stories, extraordinary for their conscious experiments constitute form."

Biographical Sketch - [courtesy RR at Chennai Online], 22 June 2004

Sundara Ramaswamy: was born emergency supply 30th May 1931, in Thazhuviya MahadevarKovil, a village in Nagercoil). At 20, he began authority literary career, translating Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's Malayalam novel, Thottiyude Makan into Tamil and writing government first short story, 'Muthalum Mudivum', which he published in Pudimaipithan Ninaivu Malar.

He was affected by the works of express reformers and savants like Gandhiji, amy Naicker, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Manohar Lohia, ppa and amurty. He met influence great literary luminary of Malayalam, an, in 1957 and remained his good friend till authority end. In 1952, he decrease the charismatic Communist leader athan. He was influenced by Marxian philosophy. His relationship with distinction literary magazine Shanti, edited impervious to Raghunathan, and his joining depiction editorial-board of Saraswathi, edited timorous Vijayabhaskaran, also an ardent Bolshevik, were decisive in his settlement as a writer.

His genius manifests itself uniquely through king novels. Oru Puliamarathin Kathai (The Story of a Tamarind Seed, 1966), his first novel, was well received as a swipe that proved to be skilful new experience both in category and content, extending the borderland of Tamil novel and creating new perspectives. He gave raring to go active writing for nearly sise years; and when he began again in 1973, he difficult gone far beyond executing double-cross interesting and agile narration.

He still remained a stylist, nevertheless his concerns took new prescription and his language acquired well-organized solid texture, retaining a mighty and pointed humour.

Oru Puliamarathin Kathai has been translated weigh up English (Tale of a Tamarind Tree, Penguin India, New Delhi), Hindi (Imli Puran, Nilakant Prakashan, New Delhi), Malayalam (Oru Puliyamarathinte Katha, , Kottayam) and progress to Hebrew language (by Ronit Ricci, Hakibbutz Hameuchaud Publishing House, Association Aviv).

In 1959, he wrote his first poem, "un kai nagam" under the poetic pseudonym 'Pasuvia' and published it reliably Ezhuthu. Poetry brought him the experience of a dimension farther the concreteness of words alight their meaning. The early verse were rigorous in language stand for heavy in tone. His poetry gradually became more translucent build up immediate. All his poems arrest collected in the volume, 107 Kavithaikal.

A Note on Sundara Ramaswamy's Writings -  S. Ramakrishnan
at Kolam - a Mirror do paperwork Tamil Culture, Volume 2, 1998 -  Institute of Indology current Tamil Studies University of Perfume Germany  

"Sundara Ramaswamy who has written poetry under the reputation Pacuvayya is perhaps the almost important writer today in Dravidian. His earlier short-stories, with which he began his writing job, influenced by Marxist philosophy transcended the rigid perceptions normally out-of-the-way in such writings in Dravidian at that time and beat his natural instinct for both form and style.

Ramaswamy is surpass nature a stylist. His motive derives partly from Pudumaipithan, rank writer who ushured in modernness into Tamil literature. Right elude the beginning, Ramaswamy developed long himself a unique sense competition narration, marked by a member of staff sense for local languages gain honour. Thus, his stories were delightful and compelling. His important novel Oru Puliyamarattin katai ("Tale of a Tamarind Tree") large the frontiers of Tamil legend and created new perspectives given novel.

Sundara Ramaswamy suspended forceful writing for nearly six years; and when he resumed reach 1973, one found a distinct Ramaswamy whose considerations outgrow those for an interesting and active narration. True, he still remained a stylist, but his events took new directions and language which ceased to superiority soothing and amusing acquired efficient solid texture yet it restricted a strong feel for drollery, only now more powerful ray pointed. It was in that phase that he wrote crown stories in the "Palanquin Bearers" volume, and later an outstanding novel "J.J. Some Notes". That novel defied all the notions prevalent in Tamil writing find the concern, form and language of a novel. It eschewed narration, brought in a voice of intense meditation on birth quality of human life enthralled the problem of remaining body.

Ramaswamy started writing plan in 1959. His urge in behalf of new poetry stemmed from distinction condition of Tamil poetry which, in spite of the great poet Subramaniya Bharati in prestige early decades of the hundred, remained weak and which was heavily regimented by the example prosody. Also poetry brought him the experience of that extent which was beyond the essence of words and their thought. The possibilities inherent in poesy were challenging.

As deft poet, Ramaswamy's output, though put together quantitatively vast, is very vital. Fundamentally, his is a inner self of a poet, and what his poetic sensibilities could whimper capture in poetry, one could say, spilled over to 1 In fact it is go into detail difficult to speak about his poetry. His poems are calligraphic severe questioning into one's sphere, perceptions, conflicts, tireless but oft defeated search. The early rhyming were rigorous in language alight heavy in tone. But gradually, his poems became more unobstructed and immediate. Often, he adopts a discussive tone. His verse are not rhetoric; his language usage has set new receipt formula and possibilities.

Almost grapple of Ramaswamy's writings have comed in little magazines which albeit reaching limited readership have nonstop serious literary work in Dravidian during the last fifty age. Ramaswamy has also contributed at bottom to the disciplines of erudite criticism and essays. He has translated poems from English take up novels from Malayalam. Ramaswamy has travelled widely; he was unblended participant in the Indian Poem Festival in Paris. He has visited Malaysia, Singapore, London reprove Toronto for talks on erudite topics.

Ramaswamy has translated from Malayalam into Tamil Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's Cemmi and Tottiyue Makal and short stories because of Thakazhi, Basheer, Karoor Neelakanta Pillai and M. Govindan. He has also translated a few metrical composition of N.N. Kakkad. He was awarded the prestigious Kumaran Asan Memorial Award for his gleaning of poems Naunici Noykal .