Sujatha

(May 3, 1935) is the writer of over 100 novels, 200 short stories, essays stage plays, and popular articles and Q&A on science His real name is S. Rangarajan. As a well-known contemporary Tamil writer. Sujatha is considered among the foremost.

He is a well known columnist, most notably his "Kadaisi Pakkam" (last page) in Kanaiyazhi magazine, and "Katradhum... Petrathum..." (Learned and acquired...) In Anandha Vikatan magazine had a wide readership. He served shortly as the editor of Kumudham magazine. He has also written stories, screenplays and dialogues for several Tamil movies. In addition, he has contributed to educational CD-ROMs.

He was the Chief of the team that designed the EVM or the Electronic Voting Machine during his tenure in Bharat Electronics  as General Manager of R & D  The machine  is presently used in elections all over  polling stations in India.

Biography

Sujatha ( S.Rangarajan) was born in Triplicane, Chennai but spent his childhood in Srirangam near Tiruchirapalli under the care of his paternal grandmother owing to the his  father's frequent transfers in his government job. Rangarajan attended school in Srirangam Boys higher secondary school. He did his under graduation in physics in St.Joseph's College, Trichy where he was the classmate of President Abdul Kalam. Later on, he did his engineering in electronics at the Madras Institute of Technology. His writing interests were largely inspired by the short stories and serials published in Popular Tamil Magazines and literary magazines... "Sriranganthu Devathigal" (Angels of Srirangam) was a famous series based on the real llife in that town the 50’s. His first short stories appeared in Kumudham “Paalam" (bridge) in Anandha Vikatan attracted reader’s attention.

After his Engineering degree he appeared in the competitive examination and joined the central government in Delhi after 14 years in Govt service He joined Bharat Electronics Bangalore.

In Bharat Electronics in Bangalore, India he rose to the post of general manager before his retirement to Chennai, India, where he lives today.

Sujatha received an award from the India's National Council for Science and Technology in 1993 for making science accessible to the public through his books, magazine contributions and television scripts He also received the Vaswik award for Electronic Voting Machine and Kalaimamani award from the Tamilnadu Government.

Theme Style and influence:

Sujatha is undoubtedly the most versatile Tamil writer – ranging from Short stories, Novels, Plays, Movie Screenplays, Movie Dialogues, Science Articles and hundreds of other non-fiction articles. Sujatha has written also pioneered science fiction stories in Tamil. He has the ability to explain science in very simple terms to a lay reader.

Sujatha brought freshness to Tamil writing that has been unchanged for the past forty years on diverse topics. His interests include archeology, astrophysics, Biotechnology, neuro sciences, Karnatic music, Tamil literature, sociology and many others.

He is an avid reader and uses his columns as a forum to point out rare good writers, and poets and other artists in general. He is also actively involved in several projects developing software based on Tamil language.