Chennai :

Veteran Tamil poet R Ranganathan, known as Gnanakoothan , died of age-related illnesses on Wednesday night. He was 78 and is survived by his wife and two sons.

Born in Nagapattinam in in 1938, Gnanakoothan attacked the establishment with his own idiom of social satire through his poems. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern Tamil poetry.

His popular collections poems are “Suriyanukku Pinpakkam,” “Anru Veru Kizhamai,” and “Kakarkaraiyil SIla Marankal.”

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Chennai / M T Saju /TNN /July 28th, 2016