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Tamil language Novel Writer, Journalist, Poet & Critic late Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy also known as ‘Kalki’. He derived his pen name from the suffixes of his wife name Kalyani and his name Krishnamurthy in Tamil form கல்யாணி and கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி as Kalki (கல்கி). His name also represents “Kalki avatar”, the tenth and last avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. His writings includes over 120 short stories, 10 novelettes, 5 novels, 3 historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews. Krishnamurthy’s witty, incisive comments on politics, literature, music and other forms of art were looked forward to with unceasing interest by readers. He wrote under the pen names of ‘Kalki’, ‘Ra. Ki’, ‘Tamil Theni’, ‘Karnatakam’ and so on. The success that Krishnamurthy attained in the realm of historical fiction is phenomenal. Sixty years ago, at a time when the literacy level was low and when the English-educated Tamils looked down on writings in Tamil, Kalki’s circulation touched 71,000 copies – the largest for any weekly in the county then – when it serialised his historical novels. Kalki had also the genius to classify the historical and non-historical events, historical and non-historical characters and how much the novel owes to history.
2016
Ponniyin Selvan 1
2024
VOLUME 2
2022
Selected Stories
1999
Pudhu Vellam
2018
Pudhu Vellam
2018
Pudhu Vellam
2018
Pudhu Vellam
2018
2017
Pudhu Vellam
2018
Pudhu Vellam
2018
2018
Pudhu Vellam
2018
Pudhu Vellam
2017
2013
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2017
1941
1954
1954
1954
First Flood
2023
1954
1954
The Killer Sword
1950
1954
2019
1944
Shattered Dream
1944
1944
1944
Stories and Essays
2019
Ponniyin Selvan 2
2024
2015
1937
2023
By Kalki R Krishnamurthy
1939
![அலை ஓசை [Alai osai] book cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1301160549i/10262893.jpg)
1948
![ஒற்றை ரோஜா [Otrai Roja] book cover](https://cdn.margins.app/catalog/work-covers/0ae1d504-e824-40b2-b7b4-918a57bbbfcf.jpg)
2007
2017
2017
பாகம் 4 Ponniyin Selvan : Part 4: மணிமகுடம்
2020
1954
![பொய்மான் கரடு [Poimaan Karadu] book cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1336629420i/13641727.jpg)
1991
![மகுடபதி [Magudapathy] book cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1335877895i/13629259.jpg)
2016