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Writer Ezhuthu Chithar Balakumaran during his lifetime helped many people personally in terms of education, medical and marriage related assistance, food and clothes for the needy, donations for various spiritual activities, books for libraries etc.

To continue his good deeds even after his lifetime a trust named WRITER BALAKUMARAN CHARITABLE TRUST has been formed. The trust has planned to build a meditation hall in his name, a library with a repository of his books and to celebrate the birthday and memorial days of both his Guru Yogi Ramsuratkumar and Ezhuthu chithar Balakumaran annually. To encourage Tamil literature, the trust has also decided to confer a cash prize of Rs. 25000/- to a deserving Tamil writer every year.

On the very first Memorial day of Writer Ezhuthu chithar Balakumaran, a Tamil writer was bestowed with a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/- and a shield. Shri B Venkataramanan alias Suryaa Balakumaran has taken charge as the Managing Trustee of WRITER BALAKUMARAN CHARITABLE TRUST. This trust will function irrespective of caste, creed and religion.

About Balakumaran

V Balakumaran (5 July 1946 – 15 May 2018) was an Indian Tamil writer and author of over 200 novels, 100 short stories, and dialogue/screenplay writer for 23 films. He also contributed to Tamil periodicals such as Kalki, Ananda Vikatan and Kumudam. His notable works as a dialogue writer in Tamil Cinema include Nayakan, Guna, Baashha and Pudhupettai.

Balakumaran was born in Pazhamarneri village near Thirukattupalli in Thanjavur district on 5 July 1946. He was married to Kamala and Santha. They have daughter Gowri and son Venkataraman aka Surya. He was a disciple of Yogi Ramsurat Kumar. As a child, he was highly inspired by his mother, who was a Tamil scholar and a Siromani in Sanskrit, used verses of Sangam and other ancient literature to motivate him whenever he was emotionally down. This created a deep interest in Tamil literature which made literature his passion.

Despite having a poor relationship with his father due to average academic performance especially in Mathematics, he continued his deep interest in literature with his mother’s support. After completing his studies at Wesley High School, he joined a tractor company TAFE in Chennai for a job like any middle class youth. But, with hunger for literature, he quit the job of stenographer in a tractor company and started work on poems first and gradually moved towards short stories & novels.

His first stories were published in a literary magazine called ‘ka-ca-da-ta-pa-Ra’ and for which he was also a founding member of KaChaTaThaPaRa, a self-anointed militant literary journal that had been launched with a mission to blaze new trails in modernist literature and later in Kumudam. Balakumaran’s first novel — ‘Mercury Pookaal’ was serialized in Saavi and his second ‘Irumbu Kuthirai’ (Iron horse) was serialized in Kalki.

Balakumaran’s works majorly revolved around woman with great empathy. In his stories, women were not merely gendered cardboard cutouts but fully sentient individuals, with bodies, dreams, desires, yearnings and frustrations. This “legitimisation” of female existence earned him succeeding generations of devoted women readers who resonated with the female characters in his fiction.

Balakumaran died at the age of 71 due to prolonged illness in a private hospital on 15 May 2018.

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