About Ra. Ki. Rangarajan
Lived 1927 – 2012 (aged 84–85). Ra. Ki. Rangarajan was an Indian journalist, writer and translator.
Rayampettai Krishnamacharya Rangarajan (1927 – 18 August 2012), popularly known as Ra Ki (Tamil: ரா.கி.), was a Tamil journalist and prolific author of novels, short stories, essays, translations and other works. that included several translated works from English such as Papillon and some Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer novels. Rangarajan said his inspirations were Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, and Jeffrey Archer in English; Kalki Krishnamurthy in Tamil.
Some of his stories were made into films, notably including Sumaithaangi (1962).
He died 18 August 2012, at 85 years old. He had two sons and three daughters.
Filmography Idhu Sathiyam (1963) Sumaithaangi (1963) Kairasikkaran (1984) Mahanadhi (1994)
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Ra. Ki. Rangarajan was born in 1927 in Kudanthaiyan.
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Ra. Ki. Rangarajan died on 18 August 2012.
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Ra. Ki. Rangarajan was a journalist, writer and translator.
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Ra. Ki. Rangarajan was Indian.
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