The Indian English fiction as a literary phenomena bloomed a little more than a century ago. the creative or aesthetic Indian English fiction after 1980 brought a tremendous change in themes and techniques, in feels and forms. one such author who brought the tremendous change in literature is P.A.Krishnan.
Pakshirajan Ananthakrishnan who is popularly known as P.A. Krishnan started his career as a teacher, became a bureaucrat in the Government of India and shed that mantle to become the CEO of a research foundation. He is presently a Senior Director of a multinational company. An accomplished writer, both in English and Tamil, he lives in Delhi with his wife, Revathi, who is a teacher.
P.A.Krishnan is one among those who wear proudly tradition upon sleeve has written his first novel in English, The Tiger Claw Tree as a humble tribute to his tradition. He has translated his text into Tamil Pulinagakontrai.
P A Krishnan's first novel 'The Tigerclaw Tree', which became a cult classic when it came out in 1998, chronicles the trials and tribulations of four generations of a Tenkalai Iyengar family from the southernmost part of British India to post-Independence era. His latest, 'The Muddy River', is a story of a bureaucrat caught in the machinations of Assamese politics and public sector corruption in the last quarter of the 20th century. The characters in the first are all blue-blooded Tamils, while the second has a wider array - Bengali, Assamese and Marwari.
The novel Tiger Claw Tree sings the glory of unsung heroes of Indian independence; it broadcasts the Indian the Indian history, culture, Indian values and its society with its beauty and ugliness. The novel is laced with the historical facts. With his historical imagination he takes us into dull facts and calls our ancestors, Bharathi,V.V.S.Iyer, V.O.Chidambaram ,Veera Pandiyan Kattabomman, Oomaidurai before us with all their peculiarities of language and manners.