6/11/2023 0 Comments Tamil detective novels![]() The porter had also forgone customers just to finish the story. He subsequently told of how the editor of Kumudam had seen a porter on a platform at Egmore Railway Station engrossed in one of Kumar's stories. His first novel, "Vaadagaiku Oru Uyir", was published in 1980. ![]() In 1977, his work began appearing in Kumudam, starting with the short story "Idhu Nyayama". Later that year, he submitted the crime story "Unnai Vidamaatten" to a short story contest in Maalai Murasu this was the first story for which he was paid. The next day he reluctantly submitted "Vaazhndhu Kaatuvom", a love story. He has attributed this to a prank by another student, who used Kumar's name when volunteering to submit a story for the magazine when his professor refused to allow Kumar to back out. ![]() Kumar's first published story was in 1968 or 1969, in the college magazine of Government Arts College, Coimbatore, where he earned a degree in botany. When he grew bored with this, he worked as a sales representative for an industrial rubber goods company. Prior to writing full-time, Kumar spent five years teaching, with a degree in education from Ramakrishna Vidyalaya. He created a pseudonym based on the names of his sister and his sister-in-law: Rajeshwari and Ananthakumar. ![]() Rajesh Kumar is the pseudonym of KR Rajagopal, a Tamil author of crime fiction.
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