Jayakanthan

Jayakanthan is a Tamil writer, essayist, journalist, pamphleteer, film-maker and critic.

He was an iconoclast who ridiculed social anomalies and was known for his bold and revolutionary ideas.

He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2009.Jayakanthan was born in 1934 in a family of agriculturists in Cuddalore, in the South Arcot district of Tamil Nadu.

Jayakanthan, though one of the most brilliant and honest Tamil writer of his time, his work was biased. He was apologetic to fundamentalistic religions such as Christianity and Islam.

He never saw anything wrong with Bible or Koran and the fundamentalistic views in them. His lack of scholarship in matters of religion can be seen in his writings.

He also had a stint in Tamil Cinema and tried his hand at making films.
Jayakanthan is infamously known for his arrogance and his multi-dimensional personality.

Significantly, his personality became ideal characters of a writer-many movies and writers later adopted such characters as protagonists for their creations.

Web : http://www.tamilnation.org/literature/modernwriters/jeyakantan/