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Background
- Born in
- Chennai
- Educated at
- Madras Christian College Higher Secondary SchoolMaharaja's College, Mysore
- Awards
- 🏆 Padma Bhushan🏆 Filmfare Award for Best Story🏆 Padma Vibhushan in literature & education🏆 Sahitya Akademi Award in English
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Trending topics shown first"Death and it's associates, after the initial shock produce callousness."
"Past is gone , present is going and tomorrow is day after tomorrow's yesterday . So why worry about anything ? God is in all this ."
"Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well."
"This is my child . I planted it . I saw it grow . I loved it . Don't cut it down ."
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Timeline
1906
Born
Birth2001
Died
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