TSS Rajan

Tiruvengimalai Sesha Sundara Rajan (1880–1953) was born in Nagapattinam and brought up in Srirangam in Tiruchirappalli district of Madras Presidency. He had his early education in St. Joseph’s college in Tiruchi town and graduated in medicine from Royapuram Medical School, Madras. Rajan held several party posts in the Indian National Congress over the years. He served as General Secretary of the Congress and as President, and later, Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee. He also served as the President of the Civil, Social and Welfare League of Tiruchirappalli.He was appointed Minister of Food and Public Health and served as minister till 1951.

N. Kalyan Raman is a translator of contemporary Tamil fiction and poetry into English. Over the past twenty-five years, he has published translations of fifteen works of Tamil fiction by important writers such as Ashokamitran, Poomani, Devibharathi, Perumal Murugan, Vaasanthi and Salma. His translations of contemporary Tamil poets have been published widely in journals and anthologies in India and abroad. Kalyan Raman also writes on cinema, politics and literature for leading journals and magazines in India. A collection of poems by Perundevi will be published in his translation in early 2026.