Suchitra

இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க: சுசித்ரா

Suchitra (Suchitra Ramachandran) (December 16, 1987) is a Tamil writer and translator. Suchitra writes short stories and reviews constantly, and also translates the publications from Tamil to English. Suchitra raises fundamental questions of existentialism in artistic and scientific contexts and discusses them in her writings. Her short story 'Oli” (Light), which takes life from the perspective of an European painter, received widespread attention from readers and critics.

Birth, Studies

Suchitra was born to Ramachandran and Janaki on December 16, 1987 at Mylapore in Chennai. She attended schools in Coonoor, Chennai, Vijayawada, Hyderabad and Madurai, and completed her schooling from T.V.S. Lakshmi Higher Secondary School, Madurai. Subsequently, Suchitra completed her engineering course at Kamaraj College, Virudhunagar.

Suchitra subsequently earned a doctorate in Neuroscience. She studied the ability of brain to learn on its own arrangement (statistical learning) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

Private Life

Suchitra married to Varun, a scientist on June 1, 2014 and they have a Son: Rakendu. Suchitra works as a scientist in a Switzerland laboratory and currently lives there with her family.