K. S. Venkataramani

Venkataramani had a penchant for writing from an early period in his life. At the age of 16, he gave an eloquent speech protesting the Partition of Bengal and the same was published in the magazine The Indian Patriot. During his stint at the Madras Christian College, Venkataramani published a series of sketches on village life which were later published in the form of an anthology Jatadharan and Other Stories.

Venkataramani met Rabindranath Tagore in 1928. Tagore inspired Venkataramani to start a magazine in Tamil and Venkataramani began a Tamil weekly titled Tamil Ulagu.

Venkataramani's first book was Paper Boats (1921). His first novel was Murugan the Tiller (1927). His work Kandan the Patriot was serialized in Swarajya magazine in 1931 and published as a book in 1932. In his works, Venkataramani glorified the "eddy-eyed Cauvery".

Some of his works were

• Paper Boats (1921)
• On the Sand-Dunes (1923)
• Murugan the Tiller (1927)
• Renascent India (1929)
• Kandan the Patriot (1932)
• Jatadharan and Other Stories (1937)

Little is known of Venkataramani's personal life or whether he married. Venkataramani contacted tuberculosis in Alwar State while working as Rural Development Advisor to the princely state and was subsequently in poor health throughout the remainder of his life. Venkataramani succumbed to the disease in March 1952 at the age of 61.