B. S.
Ramiah
Batlagundu Subramanian Ramiah (24 March 1905 –
18 May 1983) was a Tamil writer, journalist, and critic Batlagundu Subramanian Ramiah
from Tamil Nadu, India. He was also a script and Born Batlagundu Subramanian
dialogue writer in Tamil films. Ramiah
24 March 1905
Batlagundu
Biography Died May 18, 1983 (aged 78)
Madras
B. S. Ramiah was born in Batlagundu in 1905. He Nationality Indian
came to Madras in 1921. He was involved in the Indian
Occupation(s) Writer, Scriptwriter
independence movement and was jailed for his
participation in the Salt Satyagraha. His first short Known for Sahitya Akademi award
story Malarum Manamum (lit. The flower and the winner, 1982
scent) was published in Ananda Vikatan in 1933 (it
won third prize in the magazine's short story competition). He worked in the literary magazine Manikodi
and was a writer in the literary movement of the same name. He was a contemporary of Manikodi writers
like C. S. Chellappa, Va. Ramasamy, Pudumaipithan and Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan. During 1935–38 and later
briefly in the 1950s he ran the magazine himself. He has written a number of short stories, novels and
plays. According to C. S. Chellappa Ramiah wrote 304 short stories in total. Most of his plays were
written for S. V. Sahasranamam's "Seva Stage" drama troupe. His works have been published in Ananda
Vikatan, Kalki, Kumudam, Dina Mani, Gandhi, Jeyakodi.
In 1982, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his literary history of the Manikodi
movement – Manikodikalam (lit. The Manikodi Era).[1] He also wrote a number of original screenplays
for Tamil films and a few of his works were also made into films.[2][3][4]
Partial bibliography
Non-fiction
Manikodikalam (literary history)
Cinema...? (1943)
Plays
Therotti magan
Policekaaran maga1
President Panchatcharam (adaptation of Gogol's The Government Inspector)
Malliyam Mangalam
Poovilangu
Panjali sabadham
Kalappali
Novels
Vithiyin vilayattu komala
Kailasa Iyerin kedumathi
Premaharaam
Nandha Vilakku
Thinai vidaithavan
Sandhaipettai
Filmography
Boologa Rambai (1940)
Madanakamarajan (1941)
Baktha Naradhar (1942)
Kubera Kusela (1943)
Paranjothi (1945)
Saalivahan (1945)
Arthanaari (1946)
Visithira Vanidha(1947)
Dhana Amaravathi (1947)
Mahatma Udangkar (1947)
Devadasi (1948)
Rathan Kumar (1949)
Maaya Rambai (1952)
Amar (1954)
President Panchatcharam (1959)
Raja Magudam (1960)
Policekaran Magal (1962)
Panathottam (1963)
References
1. Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2007 (http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/a
wa10320.htm#tamil) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20100124032426/http://www.sah
itya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm) 24 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
Sahitya Akademi Official website.
2. An Album of Indian writers: issued on the occasion of Frankfurt World Book Fair (https://boo
ks.google.com/books?id=zNxjAAAAMAAJ&q=B.+S.+Ramiah). Sahitya Akademi. 1986.
3. Lakshmi Holmström (1997). Short stories by Mouni (https://books.google.com/books?id=Xm
BkAAAAMAAJ&q=B.+S.+Ramiah). Katha. p. 29. ISBN 9788185586618.
4. Krishnan Venkatachalam. "பி. எஸ். ராமையா" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100605011415/htt
p://koodu.thamizhstudio.com/thodargal_8_6.php). Koodu (in Tamil). Archived from the
original (http://koodu.thamizhstudio.com/thodargal_8_6.php) on 5 June 2010.
Further reading
B. S. Ramaiyya by Palani Rahuladasan (Sahitya Akademi's India Ilakkiya Sirpigal Series)
மணிக்கொடியை உயர்த்திய பி.எஸ்.ராமையா (https://web.archive.org/web/2012012
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