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Biography
C. Saravanakarthikeyan (Tamil: சி. சரவணகார்த்திகேயன்) (born 13 August 1984), known as CSK is a Tamil writer. He entered the field in 2007 and published 6 books to date. His writings appeared in many top Tamil magazines – both print and electronic media. His works include poems, short-stories, essays, reviews and translations. He got Tamil Nadu State Government’s Award for Best Book (2009) and Kungumam Magazine’s Prize for Best Poem (2007). He is a Software Engineer by profession and is now living in Bangalore.
Writings
Books
- Chandrayaan (New Horizon Media) - 2009
- Parathai Kootru (Aganazhigai) - 2010
- Devathai Puraanam (Karpagam Puthakalayam) - 2012
- Kittathatta Kadavul (Amrutha) - 2013
- Gujarat 2002 Kalavaram (New Horizon Media) - 2014
- Vetkam Vittu Pesalam (Sixth Sense) - 2014
Series
- Kaadhal Anukkal (Tamil Paper) - 2014
Biography
Saravanakarthikeyan was born in Coimbatore. He had his schooling at couple of schools in Erode and graduation in Computer Science and Engineering at College of Engineering, Guindy - Anna University, Chennai. Initially, he worked for a private IT services company in Chennai. Now, he is working as a senior QA engineer at a private product development concern in Bangalore.
His first poem Oruthi Ninaikaiyilae… was selected as best poem by Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu in the Kungumam magazine’s reader poem contest (2007). His first book Chandrayaan published by New Horizon Media which speaks about history and science of India’s first moon mission won Tamil Nadu government’s award for best book (2009). His second book Parathai Kootru, a poem collection published by Aganazhigai which speaks about the pain of prostitutes was released by transgressive, post-modern writer Charu Nivedita (2010). His next one Kaadhal Puraanam, a poem series in which a girl speaks about her love in 7 different stages of life was published by prolific writer Pa. Raghavan in TamilPaper.Net (2011). This came as book in the name Devathai Puraanam.
He wrote series of articles about 2011 Nobel awards in Amrutha, a monthly magazine. This series together with some other articles released as book by Amrutha Publications in the name Kittathatta Kadavul (2013). He also wrote a series, Cheei Pakkangal on the history of forbidden topics in Kungumam weekly. This is made as a book Vetkam Vittu Pesalam (2014). Often, he is writing articles in Aazham, a monthly magazine. He wrote a detailed historic account on the happened 2002 Gujarat riots named Gujarat 2002 Kalavaram which is published by New Horizon Media in 2014. He wrote a series of lengthy political articles towards Loksabha elections - 2014 in Tamil Paper. He wrote a series called Kaadhal Anukkal in Tamil Paper which is a modern poetic version of Thirukkural Kaamathupaal.
His works are published in Ananda Vikatan, Kumudham, Kungumam, Amrutha, Aazham, Aganazhigai, Mellinam (Australia), Vlambaram (Canada), TamilPaper.Net and Adhikaalai.Com. In his blog WriterCSK.Com, he wrote 700+ blog posts on variety of topics since 2007. His blog is rated 4th place in Uyirmmai trust’s Sujatha award for best blog (2010). He is active in Twitter since 2009.
Awards
- Tamil Nadu State Government’s Award for Best Book (2009)
- Kungumam Magazine’s Prize for Best Poem by Vairamuthu (2007)