Sujatha, the prolific tamil writer passed away on Feb 27, 2008 
.
He was truly super-human. He was one of the very few people who could write about high tech to religion to detective stories to drama to dialogues. A trained engineer, who lead the team that created India’s electronic voting machines, he was truly an expert in anything he did.
Post retirement, he was active in the tamil movie industry and he was instrumental in a lot of the good movies the past 15 years.
He introduced computers to me in his ‘Silicon sillu puratchi’ [a silicon revolution] 20+ years ago. He knew how to convey binary and xor gates to even a 10 year old. Towards the end, he was instrumental in getting tamil i18n in linux. He was writing about XML / RPC and such even as late as this year.
Both me and my mom are fans of his writing. It was one of the few things we both could discuss without a generation gap. He knew how to appeal to her as well as me as well as to Gen X-ers.
I am truly going to miss his writings. Truly.
