Indira Parthasarathy

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Indira Parthasarathy (Ee. Pa) (July 10, 1930) is one of the pioneers of modern tamil literature. He has accomplished in multiple fields including novels, short stories and plays. Recipient of the Padma Shri Award. Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel 'Kuruthipunal'. He is 'fellow' in Sahitya academy. Professor of tamil with high proficiency in English. A Marxist enthusiast with a scholarship in Vaishnava devotional literature.

Most of his novels deals with the psychology of the upper middle class lives. Filled with Satire. They depict the metropolitan life through the fictional characters who are officials in the government offices.

Birth, Early life

Original name is Parthasarathy. He was born in a tamil vaishnavaite family in chennai on July 10, 1930. He was brought up in Kumbakonam. He was admitted to the school of education only when was 9 years old, that too in the class of sixth standard straightaway. He was introduced to tamil literary personalities such as Thi. Janakariman and Karichchan Kunju at this young age. Thi. Janakiraman was his teacher. He received Bachelor's degree from Kumbakonam arts college and Master's degree from Chidambaram annamalai university.

Personal life

He started his career as a Tamil teacher at the National College in Trichy in 1952. He later worked as a Tamil teacher at the University of Delhi (1962-2002) and after retirement became the Professor of Drama at the University of Pondicherry. For few years (1981-1986) he was a visiting professor of Indian philosophy and culture at the University of Warsaw in Poland. He is currently living in Chennai.

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