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764:T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan
500:Alagirisamy Ilakkiya Thadam
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126:. His first short story
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689:K. D. Thirunavukkarasu
262:Leninudan sila naatkal
927:Sirpi Balasubramaniam
900:Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
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550:Sahitya Akademi Award
180:Sahitya Akademi Award
788:Ka. Naa. Subramanyam
780:A. S. Gnanasambandan
716:Indira Parthasarathy
601:Mi. Pa. Somasundaram
399:Venkat Swaminathan.
194:Partial bibliography
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804:V. C. Kulandaiswamy
577:Kalki Krishnamurthy
428:Tamil short stories
156:Kalki Krishnamurthy
110:. He completed his
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502:(in Tamil). Kavya.
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88:Tamil Nadu
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