“Most writers then wrote stories based in Chennai or Tamil Nadu. What set him apart from other writers were his childhood travels with his father, a handloom merchant, which took him across India and found its way into his books.
Today, he’s 69 years old and still churns out three novels a month.
Judging by his safari suit and retro-style spectacles, Kumar is like a visit from the past - the 1980s to be more specific. He also dabbled in teaching for five years after obtaining a B.Ed degree from Ramakrishna Vidyalaya, before quitting (reportedly) of boredom. One of India’s most prolific writers, he has to his credit at -at least 1,500 novels.Ī Botany graduate from the Government Arts College, Coimbatore, Kumar’s first story was published in the college magazine. One of the centres of the parallel cultural universe of popular writing in Tamil is Coimbatore-based writer, Rajesh Kumar. While the world is awed by Indian writers in English such as Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri, there is a world of vibrant literature nestled away from plain sight: racy short-fiction in the regional languages. In sharp contrast, the inner pages are of cheaper, low quality paper or “pulp”. On the cover are beautiful illustrations of women who are characters in all kinds of stories – romance, thrillers, science fiction and crime. The books are just the right size, not too big, not too small. The covers of the first two volumes of "Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction"
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