Sujatha Rangarajan

Sujatha
Born	S. Rangarajan 3 May 1935 Srirangam, Trichy, India
Died	27 February 2008 (aged 72) Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India
Pen name	Sujatha
Occupation	Engineer, writer, novelist,scriptwriter
Nationality	Indian
Period	1935–2008
Spouse	Sujatha Rangarajan
Children	Kesava Prasad, Ranga Prasad
Website
www.writersujatha.com

Sujatha (3 May 1935 – 27 February 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.

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• 1 Career
• 2 Biography
  • 2.1 Education
  • 2.2 Early writings
  • 2.3 Engineering career
• 3 Works
• 4 Awards
• 5 Style and influence
• 6 Interests
• 7 Contribution to films
  • 7.1 Films
• 8 References
• 9 External links

Career[edit]

Penning with his wife's name, Sujatha's Tamil literary career spanned more than four decades. An engineer by profession, he was proficient in the language of technology. Widely read and knowledgeable, he presented his knowledge in simple Tamil.

His works stood out during a time when Tamil writing was dominated by social/family dramas and historical novels. 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 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. At one point, his writing was appearing in numerous Tamil weeklies and journals simultaneously, including Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam, Kungumam, Kalki and Dhinamani Kadhir. Later he contributed as script/screenplay writer for several Tamil movies. His notable movies included Vikram,Thiruda Thiruda, Boys and Sivaji. Most of his early novels/stories were made as movies, including Priya, Gaytri, Karaiyellam Senbagapoo and Anandha Thandavam, among others.

In addition to the novels, stories, essays he wrote, he helped introduce haiku poetry to Tamil audiences. Brought 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. Among his popular novels are Pirivom Sandhipom (not related to the recent movie of the same name),Rathham Ore Niram, and Kolaiyudhir Kaalam.

He also immortalized Ganesh-Vasanth – an imaginary advocate pair serving as the main characters in most of his detective stories. Ganesh is a level-headed, senior advocate and Vasanth is his flirtatious junior advocate. The Ganesh-Vasanth pair was based on James Hadley Chase's characters, Vic Malloy and his sidekick.

In his later days he restricted his writing to essays such as Katradhum-Petradhum. He began to spend more time reading, especially old rare Tamil writings and writings on the latest developments in information technology and computing.

As an engineer, he supervised the design and production of the electronic voting machine (EVM) during his tenure at Bharat Electronics Limited, a machine which is currently used in elections throughout India. As a writer he inspired many authors, including Balakumaran, Madhan, Charu Nivedita.

Biography[edit]

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.

Education[edit]

He did his schooling in Srirangam Boys High School, Srirangam. He attended St. Joseph's College, Trichy, where he was a classmate of Abdul Kalam (who later became thePresident of India). Sujatha graduated in the 1954 class with a BSc in Physics (1952–54). Later he studied engineering in Electronics from the Madras Institute of Technology. His writing interests were largely inspired by the short stories and serials published in popular Tamil magazines.

Early writings[edit]

Srirangathu Devathaigal (Angels of Srirangam) is a series of short stories based on incidents in that part of the world in the 1940s and 50s. Sivaji, a minor magazine from Trichy, published a story during his student days. His first short story was published in Kumudam magazine in 1962. His Kolaiyuthir Kalam was an exciting ghost-themed novel.

Engineering career[edit]

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. As an engineer, he was a forward thinker and he was the key person behind the development of the Electronic Voting Machine in India.^[1] He initiated the development of advanced word processing before the days of personal computers.^{[citation needed]}....

Works[edit]

• Vairangal (Diamonds)
• Eppothum Penn (Always a woman) – A Tamil novel influenced by Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex
• En Iniya Iyanthira (My Dear Machine) – A science-fiction novel in Tamil involving robots. The novel features Nila, Ravi, Mano, Jeano – a robo dog. The story is written like everything is happening in 2020 A.D.
• Meendum Jeano – a sequel to En Iniya Iyandhira
• Sorga Theevu – one of the first science fiction works in Tamil
• En? Etharku? Eppadi? – answers to questions by readers, mostly on science
• Katrathum Petrathum (I, II & III)
• Kolaiyuthir Kalam (roughly translated as The Autumn of Murders) – One of his famous detective novels in Tamil, that came as a series in Kumudam, featuring Ganesh and Vasanth. It was also made into a television serial and was aired by Doordarshan's Podhigai channel.
• Pirivom Sandhipom – Part I and Part II – A love story set in Tamiraparani which then travels to New York. Captures a glimpse of an NRI Tamil's life in the early 80s. This novel was later made into a film called 'Aanandha Thaandavam'.
• Nylon Kayiru (Nylon Thread)
• Anitha Ilam Manaivi – a crime story
• Thoondil Kathaigal – a compilation of short stories
• Srirangathu Thevathaigal a series of short stories featuring Sujatha's experiences as a boy, a youth and a man in Srirangam, depicting incidents when he was staying in his grandmother's house in Srirangam.
• "Kanayazhiyin Kadaisee Pakkangal" – a series of articles in the last pages of the magazine Kanayazhi
• Anithavin Kadhalgal
• Aaah! – a story based on hallucinations
• Marina
• "Aadhalinal kadhal seiveer"(complete suspense story )
• Pesum Bommaigal
• Nirvana Nagaram

• 24 rubai thevu^[2]
• Kadavulgalin palathaku(Composition)
• Marma kadaikal(Collection of thiller)

• Niramatra Vanavil
• Theendum Inbam
• Alvargal – Oru Elia Arimugam – a Simple introduction to the Geniuses of first millennium
• Kanthalur Vasantha Kumaran kathai- A historic fiction that centers around Raja Raja chozhan empire
• "Retham ore Niram"- Set in Pre-Independence period, this novel narrates the story of young man who wants to take revenge on a British officer who killed his father
• 14 naatkal

• vaimaiye sila samayam vellum

The above works are not listed in chronological order.

Awards[edit]

Sujatha received an award from Government of India's National Council for Science and Technology in 1993 for making science accessible to the public through his books, magazine contributions and other media.

VASWIK Award for Electronic Voting Machine.

Kalaimamani Award from the Tamil Nadu Government.

MYLAPORE Academy award for doordharshan best serial "Mahan Ramanujar".^[3]

Style and influence[edit]

Sujatha was a versatile Tamil writer, with several short stories, novels, poems, plays, screenplays for movies, articles on popular science and other non-fiction articles, to his credit. Sujatha wrote a number of sci-fi stories in Tamil and sought to explain science in simple terms to the layman. He would routinely answer science questions in magazines like Junior Vikatan. His science FAQ has been released as separate books called En, Etharku, Eppadi and Athisaya Ulagam by Vikatan Publications.

He worked on "Katradhum, Petradhum" in Anantha Vikatan and "Sujatha Bathilgal" in Kumudam and Kungumam.

Interests[edit]

His interests included computers,archeology, astrophysics, biotechnology, neuroscience, Carnatic music, Tamil literature, and sociology.

Contribution to films[edit]

He extended his writing skills and expertise from science to movies. The first of these efforts were Gaayathri and Priya. In Priya, his fictional character Ganesh was played byRajinikanth. Kamal Hassan's Vikram was written by him. He penned dialogues for the movie Roja, directed by Maniratnam. In recent times he has been associated with Mani Ratnam (for Iruvar, Kannathil Muthamittal, Aayitha Ezhuthu, etc.), Shankar (for Boys, Anniyan, Indian, Mudhalvan, Sivaji, and Enthiran) and Azhagam Perumal is Udhaya. He was also a co-producer for the banner MediaDreams, which went on to produce the critically acclaimed Bharathi, a biopic of the great Tamil poet Bhaarathiyaar.

He was working on Shankar's Enthiran before he died on 27 February 2008.

Films[edit]

• Enthiran (2010)
• Ananda Thandavam (2009)
• Sivaji (2007)
• Anniyan (2005)
• Udhaya (2004)
• Aayitha Ezhuthu (2004)
• Chellame (2004)
• Boys (2003)
• Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
• Nila Kaalam (2001)
• Mudhalvan (1999)
• Iruvar (1997)
• Roja (1992)
• Vikram (1986)
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Top Indian Innovators Under 35 [MIT's Technology Review List]

MIT’s Technology Review has announced its India TR35 list for 2011 representing innovators, all under age 35, who exemplify innovation in business and technology. Eighteen young men and women, all under the age of 35 are a part of the list of hottest technology innovators from India. Coming from a wide range of fields these innovators, including two women, are part of the prestigious India TR35 honour by MIT’s Technology Review India.

Here are the details of all the winners.

Technology Review has handpicked three from the Top 18 Indian innovators– Alefia Merchant, Ajit Narayanan and Gautam Kumar – for special honours.

Technology Review India’s ‘Innovator of the Year’, Aji Narayanan, 29, exemplifies the spirit of innovation in India. Toiling for a few years at a startup, Invention Labs Engineering, incubated at the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras, Narayanan has developed an alternate communication system for millions of people who remain incommunicado with the society due to their disabilities.Avaz, (voice in Hindi) is the tool which uses a variety of software and hardware to provide a voice to these muted millions using just their muscle movements.

Another celebrated innovator, a young medical student, Alefia Merchant, 32 is pursuing medical studies in Canada. Alefia, during her short stint with Bangalore-based eye hospital, Narayana Nethralaya developed an easy method to spot eye disorders in young children. Millions of Indian children from poor families do not have access to cost-effective diagnostic tools to detect their vision threatening conditions before the age of five.

Merchant used the images from digital cameras to look for vision threatening symptoms. The simplicity of the method provides a handy tool in the hands of health workers in remote corners of India and perhaps many other medically underserved regions in the world. For this amazing invention the jury named Alefia Merchant, the Humanitarian of the Year, from the perspective of technology innovation.

Gautam Kumar, 26, from Bhubaneswar was named as the Social Innovator of the year. Most urban homes in India use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supplied in cylinders for cooking. Leakages from the cylinder are common and thousands of people die every year due to cylinder blasts caused by leakages in kitchens.

Kumar has developed a simple gas detection system using a sensor and communication module to issue warning to user’s registered mobile phone. Called Suraksha (safety in Hindi), it is another innovation that should improve safety levels in millions of Indian homes in the coming years.

India TR35 list presented in the March 2011 issue of Technology Review India recognizes the game-changing achievements of young inventors from diverse areas covering biotechnology and medicine, nanotechnology and materials, computer & electronics hardware, energy, Internet and web and software.

The 2011 India TR 35 list includes

For Biotechnology & Medicine……

Alefia Merchant, University of Montreal, Montreal named as Humanitarian of the Year for developing a novel way of screening children as part of community pediatric ophthalmology project at Narayana Nethralaya

Sameer Jain, MGV Dental College, Nashik for creating an innovative root canal machine

For Computer & Electronics Hardware

Ajit Narayanan, Invention Labs Engineering, Chennai named Innovator of the Year for creating Voice device for people with speech disabilities

Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Microsoft Research, Bangalore for creating a hybrid paper, pen, and digital slate solution for a low-cost digital record management system by

Fahad Azad, Robosoft Systems, Mumbai for bridling a duct cleaning robot to improve quality of the air we breathe

Gautam Kumar, RoboticWares, Bhubaneswar named Social Innovator of the year for developing system to detect gas leakages

Pulkit Gaur, Gridbots, Ahmedabad for inventing underwater robot to clean tanks and reduce water wastage

Srinivasan Jayaraman, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore for devising a secure system using human ECG to authenticate, identify and diagnose

For Energy

Harit Soni, Ecolibrium Energy, Ahmedabad for creating smart grid technology to optimize the use of electricity in India

Sanjoy Ghosh, Logica India, Bangalore for building a device that wirelessly monitors and reports vehicular emission in real-time

For Internet & Web

Manav Bhatia, Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore for securing the Internet service provider’s routing network

Sushant Sinha, Indian Kanoon, Bangalore for developing a search engine for Indian laws and court judgments

For Nanotechnology & Materials

Krishna Gopal Singh, EnNatura Technology Ventures, Delhi for creating ecofriendly printing ink that reduces harmful emissions by almost 99 percent

Mayur M. Sadawana, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai for inventing point-of-care multi-analyte sensor

For Software

Akash Lal, Microsoft Research, Bangalore for improving software quality using automated verification

Akshay Shah, iWeb Technology Solutions, Mumbai for creating a business process management generator which can create applications on the fly

For Telecommunications

Deepak Ravindran, Innoz Technologies, Gurgaon for creating a mobile based search engine to deliver information on any topic

Sagar Bedmutha, Optinno Mobitech, Pune for developing an intelligent anti-spamming software for mobile phones

Technology Review India Editor Ch. Srinivas Rao who led the project says each of the shortlisted 60 entries from nearly 200 odd entries was evaluated by at least three jury members. “It is heartening to see an increase in technology innovation in India”

The 2011 class of India TR35 winners have all demonstrated either development of new technology or the creative application of existing technologies to solve problems from the shores of India.

Technology Review India has followed the same elaborate process that its Cambridge, USA based parent adopts in the selection of its winners in the US. Technology Review’s deputy editor Brian Bergstein who has been one of the key members to evaluate the global TR 35 program, went beyond his brief to evaluate all the shortlisted entries.

What’s your take on these innovators?

Mohenjo Daro

The Indus Valley civilization was entirely unknown until 1921, when excavations in what would become Pakistan revealed the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (shown here).

This mysterious culture emerged nearly 4,500 years ago and thrived for a thousand years, profiting from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade with the civilizations of nearby Mesopotamia.

By John Roach

A well-planned street grid and an elaborate drainage system hint that the occupants of the ancient Indus civilization city of Mohenjo Daro were skilled urban planners with a reverence for the control of water. But just who occupied the ancient city in modern-day Pakistan during the third millennium B.C. remains a puzzle.

"It's pretty faceless," says Indus expert Gregory Possehl of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The city lacks ostentatious palaces, temples, or monuments. There's no obvious central seat of government or evidence of a king or queen. Modesty, order, and cleanliness were apparently preferred. Pottery and tools of copper and stone were standardized. Seals and weights suggest a system of tightly controlled trade.

The city's wealth and stature is evident in artifacts such as ivory, lapis, carnelian, and gold beads, as well as the baked-brick city structures themselves.

A watertight pool called the Great Bath, perched on top of a mound of dirt and held in place with walls of baked brick, is the closest structure Mohenjo Daro has to a temple. Possehl, a National Geographic grantee, says it suggests an ideology based on cleanliness

Wells were found throughout the city, and nearly every house contained a bathing area and drainage system.

City of Mounds

Archaeologists first visited Mohenjo Daro in 1911. Several excavations occurred in the 1920s through 1931. Small probes took place in the 1930s, and subsequent digs occurred in 1950 and 1964.

The ancient city sits on elevated ground in the modern-day Larkana district of Sindh province in Pakistan.

During its heyday from about 2500 to 1900 B.C. the city was among the most important to the Indus civilization, Possehl says. It spread out over about 250 acres (100 hectares) on a series of mounds, and the Great Bath and an associated large building occupied the tallest mound.

According to University of Wisconsin, Madison, archaeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, also a National Geographic grantee, the mounds grew organically over the centuries as people kept building platforms and walls for their houses.

"Gradually you have a high promontory on which people are living," he says.

With no evidence of kings or queens, Mohenjo Daro was likely governed as a city-state, perhaps by elected officials or elites from each of the mounds.

Prized Artifacts

A miniature bronze statuette of a nude female, known as the dancing girl, was celebrated by archaeologists when it was discovered in 1926, Kenoyer notes.

Of greater interest to him, though, are a few stone sculptures of seated male figures, such as the intricately carved and colored Priest King, so called even though there is no evidence he was a priest or king.

The sculptures were all found broken, Kenoyer says. "Whoever came in at the very end of the Indus period clearly didn't like the people who were representing themselves or their elders," he says.

Just what ended the Indus civilization—and Mohenjo Daro—is also a mystery.

Kenoyer suggests that the Indus River changed course, which would have hampered the local agricultural economy and the city's importance as a center of trade.

But no evidence exists that flooding destroyed the city, and the city wasn't totally abandoned, Kenoyer says. And, Possehl says, a changing river course doesn't explain the collapse of the entire Indus civilization. Throughout the valley, the culture changed, he says.

"It reaches some kind of obvious archaeological fruition about 1900 B.C.," he said. "What drives that, nobody knows."