He published the widely consulted Tamil-English dictionaryS. Ramakrishnan, veteran Tamil publisher, died at the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital on the Omandurar Government Estate here on Tuesday. Mr. Ramakrishnan, whose mother tongue was Telugu, considered himself a Tamil as he was born and brought up in Chennai. He founded Cre-A, a Tamil publishing firm, in 1974 with the objective of bringing out serious literature in Tamil. He was keen on creating a body of meaningful Tamil readers so that serious works in modern Tamil literature could be supported and nourished. Amshan Kumar, Tamil writer-film maker, points out that Mr. Ramakrishnan, while producing books, preferred quality to quantity.

Source: The Hindu November 17, 2020 03:38 UTC