This message is for those who dont know about Sujatha but take the pain of reading this message to know about him
Sujatha is an electronic engineer by profession and used to work for Bharat Electronics. He use to juggle his carrier between electronics reasarch and tamil litreature. Apart from writing, he used to contribute to Tamil cinema also occationally. After retirement he devoted full time to writing and Tamil cinema.
What makes him so unique is his style of writing and the kind of subjects he choose to write. He explained about computer operating system to masses in simple words when computer were not that popular. His stories caried science fiction which are becoming reality these days. Also he was verdy bold in handling some of the subject which were taboo to discuss about like caste system, personality cult and the vulnerability of middle calss families.
His writing are so popular because of his style. There will not a single line in his novel which you will find as unnecessary. Each line will move the story a little bit. He will pack so many things within a single page, such will be the speed of his writing. More over the words he uses will be so striking so that once you read the story you will not forget it for your life time.
His speciality was short stories, there will be no sentiment in his stories but when you read his short stories about child abuse or the evils of land mine in Afghanistan you will be in tears.