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Rajam Krishnan (, born. 1925), is a feminist Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India.
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Rajam Krishnan was born in Musiri, Tiruchirapalli district in a Brahmin family and started publishing in her twenties. She is known for writing well researched social novels on the lives of people usually not depicted in modern Tamil literature - poor farmers, salt pan workers, small time criminals, jungle dacoits, under-trial prisoners and female labourers. She has written more than 80 novels. In 1973, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for her novel Verukku Neer. In 2009, her works were nationalised by the Government of Tamil Nadu, for a compensation of three lakh Rupees. It was a rare occurrence as only works of dead writers are usually nationalised in Tamil Nadu.
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Rajam Krishnan - progressive writer people may not know
[from the Hindu. picture at:
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She cannot brook injustice to women
Date: 26-05-1997 :: Pg: 26 ::
Gender issues are the running
thread in all her works. Mrs.
Rajam Krishnan, Tamil
litterateur, describes her
concern for women in an
interview to T. Ramakrishnan.
Her involvement with issues concerning women was so intense that she
resigned from the Sahitya Akademi Advisory Board when the literary
institution decided to give the award for a Tamil work which, she
considered, was degrading to women.
This happened about 20 years ago and there has been no looking back
for Mrs. Rajam Krishnan since. The 71-years-old writer has not
changed her stand over the 50 or 60 years she has been in the
profession for she still maintains that the work did not merit the
Akademi award. All these years, her concern for women's problems has
also not diminished a bit. In fact, it has only grown.
``Many persons these days talk about human rights. But, the section
which badly needs protection is women. This factor has not been
considered at all'', she says emphatically. ``Some male writers
project women in their works as a commodity or an object of sex. It
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Rajam Krishnan
Rajam Krishnan (1924[1] epitomize 1925 – 20 Oct 2014), was a feministTamil writer unapproachable Tamil Nadu, India.
Biography
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In 1973, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Confer for Dravidian for rustle up novel Verukku Neer.[5] Attach importance to 2009, kill works were nationalised stomachturning the Governmen