A. Srinivasa Raghavan was a Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 poet, writer, orator, and professor from Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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, India

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. He was also popularly known by his initials as Aa. See. Ra .

Biography

Srinivasa Raghavan was born in Kandiyur near Thiruvaiyaru

Thiruvaiyaru

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. He completed his schooling in Nagapattinam

Nagapattinam

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 and graduated from St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli

St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli

St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli is a Jesuit-founded college in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.-The College Coat Of Arms:“The college blazon is not the heirloom of an ancient and noble family handed down with pride of name and glorious memories of the past. It is only distinctive badge...

. He worked as a lecturer in the same college and the Vivekananda College, Chennai

Chennai

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 for some time. He also published two magazines - Sindhanai (a Tamil monthly) and Triveni (an English monthly). He published his works using the pseudonym Vagulaparanan.. He worked as a professor of English at St. Xavier's College, Chennai and M. D. T. Hindu College, Tirunelveli

Tirunelveli

Tirunelveli , also known as Nellai , and historically as Tinnevelly, is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the headquarters of the Tirunelveli District and the sixth biggest city in Tamil Nadu...

. During 1951-69 served as its Principal of V.O.C. College, Tuticorin. In 1968, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

 for Tamil for his collection of poetry Vellai Paravai (lit. The White Bird). He died in 1975. A complete edition of his works was published posthumously in 2005.

Partial bibliography

• Vellai Paravai (poetry collection)
• Nigumbalai
• Avan Amaran
• Gowthami
• Udhaya Kanni (play)
• Mel Karru
• Ilakkiya Malargal
• Kaaviya Arangil
• Gurudevarin Kural
• Pudhu Merugu (literary commentary)
• Bharathiyin Kural (essay)
• Kambanilil irundhu sila idhazhgal (essay)
• Nammazhwar (biography)

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