Rajesh Kumar

Rajesh Kumar is the pseudonym of KR Rajagopal, a Tamil author of crime fiction.

Professional career

Kumar's first published story was in 1968 or 1969, in the college magazine of Government Arts College, Coimbatore, where he earned a degree in botany. He has attributed this to a prank by another student, who used Kumar's name when volunteering to submit a story for the magazine; "the next day" He has also written over 2000 short stories, and scripts for over 250 television series,

In 2019, he announced that he was negotiating with Sathya Jyothi Films regarding adaptations of his work on Amazon Prime.

Early life Prior to writing full-time, Kumar spent five years teaching, with a degree in education from Ramakrishna Vidyalaya; when he grew bored with this, he worked as a sales representative for an industrial rubber goods company.

Pseudonym To avoid being confused with two pre-existing Tamil authors named "KR Rajagopal", he created a pseudonym based on the names of his sister and brother-in-law: Rajeshwari and Ananthakumar.