P. A. Krishnan

P. A. Krishnan is an Indian writer. He writes in Tamil and English languages. He started his career as a Teacher. Then he worked and retired from Central government job. He has a wife and a son.[1] He is one of the Advisories in awards panel of Tamil literary garden organization.[2] He writes artciles in tamil newspaper The Hindu (Tamil) and in online magazine solvanam.

Works

English

The story is of a bureaucrat caught between Assamese politics and public sector corruption in the 20th century. The characters are based on people from Bengali, Assamese and Marwari.[4]

The timeline of this book is from British India to Post independence. Characters are four generations of a Tenkalai Iyengar family.[4]

Tamil

References

  1. "P A Krishnan". Westland books. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  2. "Judges - Tamil literary garden". Tamil Literary Garden. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  3. "Muddy River". Rediff - books. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "'The Muddy River' is a mirror of political fiction". IBN Live (India). 3 January 2012.
  5. "Tigerclaw Tree". Rediff - books. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Former bureaucrat's novel exposes the ‘muddy river'". The Hindu (Chennai,India). 9 January 2012.
  7. 7.0 7.1 "P.A. Krishnan's Books". GoodReads. Retrieved 14 November 2014.