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At a time when postmodernism was a rage in Tamil literary circles, and the death of realist writing was being declaimed from rooftops, and writers were experimenting with non-linear narratives and metafiction, Sundara Ramaswamy opted for a deceptively direct narrative. He published a collection of his poems under the title Nadunisi Naigal in 1975 and a second poetry collection called Yaaro Oruvanukkaga in 1987.

With occasional bursts of poetry, he wrote a little over a 100 poems in his career, most of them short and still recalled by readers. Poetry brought him the experience of a dimension beyond the concreteness of words and their meaning. It was an autobiographical novel. Sundara Ramaswamy continued to maintain his links with Kottayam.

Awards Awarded Under Sundara Ramaswamy's name

Award for Contributions to Tamil Computing

The Sundara Ramasamy Award for Contributions to Tamil Computing/Tamil IT is awarded every year to honour personalities who have contributed to the field of Tamil computing.

Kalachuvadu

Sundara Ramaswamy organized a literary gathering called Kaagangal (Crows) at his house since 1973.

Ragunathan, progressive writer and biographer of Pudumaippithan.

Sundara Ramaswamy’s early fiction was published in progressive literary journals. His short stories of the time, collected and published in book form, Pallakku Thookkikal, reveal a tighter language and a conscious attempt to experiment with form and content. He had three daughters, Soundara, Thaila, and Thangu, and a son, Sundaram Kannan.

Raghunadhan.

It later became known as the Sudarshan Cloth Store. The Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers' Association condemned this story, claiming that it was against Dalits. They demanded that Sundara Ramaswamy be arrested under the Untouchability Abolition Act. However, Dalit activists like Ravikumar argued in support of him.

Although Sundara Ramaswamy was already acquainted with K.N.

Subramanyam, his break with the Communist Party and other left-wingers brought him closer to K.N. Subramanyam. In modern Tamil literature, there exists a tradition that can be identified as the Sundara Ramaswamy School of Thought.

Sundara Ramaswamy's second novel JJ Sila Kurippugal (JJ: Some Jottings) was published in 1981.

In 1979, when he wrote in an article that MG. Ramachandran (actor and the ruling chief minister of the day) was a komali (buffoon/clown), he received threats from the local ADMK partymen. These two movements were the two juggernauts of the day, creating the bulk of writing that Tamil people read. For instance, his earliest effort, the translation into Tamil of Thagazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s Thottiyude Magan, was retrieved from old volumes of Saraswathi and published in book form.

Before Oru Puliyamarathin Kadhai (Tale Of A Tamarind Tree), Sundara Ramaswamy had attempted writing a novel about a murder at the Cholamandalam Arts Village in Chennai, instituted by K.C.S.