Suneel Krishnan
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Sunil Krishnan (April 6, 1986) is a writer, Ayurvedic physician and neo-Gandhian who writes short stories and novels in Tamil. He is a recipient of the Yuvapuraskar award for literature given by the Kendriya Sahitya Akademi.
Personal Life
Suneel Krishnan was born on April 6, 1986 in Karaikal, Pondicherry to Dr. Ramachandran and Ramadevi.. His native place is Arimalam, Pudukottai district.
He completed his higher secondary education from Kottaiyur Muthiah Alagappa Matriculation Higher Secondary School near Karaikudi. He completed his ayurvedic course at Sri Sairam Ayurvedic Medical College in West Tambaram.
Suneel Krishnan got married Dr. Manasa on May 23, 2013 and they have a son Sudhir Chandran and a daughter Sabarmati. He practices Ayurveda in Karaikudi.
Literary life
Suneel's first short story, Vasudevan, was published on August 4, 2013. He is influenced in his literary work by the pioneer writers Jeyamohan, Yuvan Chandrasekhar, A. Muttulingam and Ashokamithran.
Suneel's first novel Neelakandam was released in 2019. Critics hailed this as a novel that explored the various aspects of childbirth in tradition, rituals, religion, psychology and medicine, and succeeded in presenting a fundamental problem of human beings. Sunil Krishnan spoke of its contents as "the absurdity of death, the dream of deathlessness, the state of strong fighting against all the odds, the authority and its subtle forms" [1]
He has authored several short stories, anthologies and novels under the penname Naropa.
Marappachi Literary Circle
Suneel Krishnan founded Marappachi Literary Circle which organizes literary gatherings in Karaikudi on every Sunday starting January 2019. Writers Nanjil Nadan, Sureshkumara Indrajith, Devi Bharathi, Perundevi, Keeranur Jakir Raja, Uma Maheshwari, Bogan Shankar, S. Senthilkumar, Samraj and Suresh Pradeep presided in them.
Gandhi Today
In 2011, during the spread of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement, Suneel wrote several articles for this movement on his web page. They articles were compiled during 2012 into a website called Gandhi Today. It is the goto internet platform for Gandhi, Gandhism and Gandhians, and Sunil Krishnan is writing and compiling articles with his friends and publishing on it regularly. Suneel also translated articles written by many on Gandhi and Gandhism.
Sunil Krishnan is unique in writing about the complexities of modern life with modern metaphors. He finds his own metaphors from medical field and modern technologies. His works raise moral questions without any restraints. “Not only his writings on the three themes: ayurveda, folk tales and everyday events, reveal the direct and logical understanding, but also the natural self-absorbed tendencies wandering in a state of frantic mania” says critic M Gopalakrishnan. [2]
