Pushpa Thangadurai

Sri Venugopal (Tamil: ஸ்ரீ வேணுகோபால்) (1931 – 10 November 2013) was an Indian author of religious pilgrimage travelogues, who also wrote fiction under the name Pushpa Thangadurai (Tamil: புஷ்பா தங்கதுரை).^[1]^[2]

Works

Some of his most famous novels are:

En Peyar Kamala (1974–75)
Oru Sivappu Villaku Erikirathu (1976)
Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu (1976)

Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu was made into a film starring Kamal Haasan.

An excerpt of En Peyar Kamala was translated into English by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and published as part of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction in 2008. Volume 2 of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction featured Highway 17, a 1980 comic written by Pushpa Thangadurai and illustrated by Jeyaraj, starring a motorcycle-riding female detective called Karate Kavitha.

Some of Pushpa Thangadurai's other short stories and novels are:

Neen Naan Nila,
Thenmerku Paruvam,
Naan Raamanalla,
Thiruvarangan Ula ^[3]

References

^ "Tamil novelist Pushpa Thangadurai dead at 82". The Times of India. 11 November 2013. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
^ Sundaresan, P. (29 March 2005). "Anthology of stories". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
^ Chakravarthy, Pritham (2008). The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction. Chennai, India[pushpa-thangadurai_720_southdreamz.jpg]: Blaft Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-81-906056-0-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

[1] "Tamil novelist Pushpa Thangadurai dead at 82". The Times of India. 11 November 2013. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.

[2] Sundaresan, P. (29 March 2005). "Anthology of stories". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2023.

[3] Chakravarthy, Pritham (2008). The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction. Chennai, India[pushpa-thangadurai_720_southdreamz.jpg]: Blaft Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-81-906056-0-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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