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Indira Parthasarathy - Sahitya Academy
September 22 , 2021
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- After a gap of 25 years, the Sahitya Academy has chosen a Tamil litterateur, Indira Parthasarathy for its highest honour of Fellowship.
- He is commonly known as Ee. Paa.
- In 1996, D. Jayakanthan, aged 62, was the youngest to become a Fellow of the Academy.
- Before him, only two from the Tamil literary world.
- They were Rajaji or C. Rajagopalachari (1969) and T.P. Meenakshisundaram (1975).
- Though V. Raghavan (1979) and K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1985), both Tamils, were also given the Fellowship, they were recognised for their contributions to Sanskrit and the Indian writing in English.
- Indira Parthasarathy is author of over 40 books, including 16 novels, 10 plays and six collections of short stories.
- Prof. Parthasarathy is noted for his works on political themes.
- He considers the play Ramanujar his magnum opus.
- His Kurithi Punal, written against the backdrop of the 1968 Keezh venmani massacre of 42 poor farmers, fetched him the Sahitya academy award in 1977.
- He went on to win several prestigious awards, including the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award and the Saraswati Samman.
- He is the only Tamil writer to be given awards by both the Sahitya and Sangeet Natak Academies.
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