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தன் பயண நூல்களால் தமிழ் இலக்கியத்தில் ஒரு திருப்புமுனையை அமைத்தவர் ஏ.கே.செட்டியார் என்று அழைக்கப்பட்ட அ.கருப்பன் செட்டியார். அவர் தற்போதைய சிவகங்கை மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ள செட்டிநாட்டுப் பகுதியான கோட்டையூரில் 03.11.1911 ஆம் நாள் பிறந்தார். திருவண்ணாமலை யில் படித்துக் கொண்டிருக்கும் போதே சுதந்திரப் போராட்டத்தில் ஈடுபட்டார். மகாத்மா காந்தியைத் தமது தலைவராக ஏற்றார். தமது இருபதாவது வயதில் மியான்மரின் (பர்மா) தலைநகரமான ரங்கூனில் நாட்டுக்கோட்டை நகரத்தாரால் வெளியிடப்பட்ட ‘தனவணிகன்’ என்ற இதழுக்கு ஆசிரியராகப் பணிபுரிந்தார். புகைப்படக் கலையில் மிகுந்த ஈடுபாடு கொண்டு, 1930 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஜப்பான் சென்று ‘இம்பீரியல் ஆர்ட்ஸ் கலாசாலையில்’ சேர்ந்து புகைப்படக் கலையில் தேர
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Published June 15, 2020
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A.K. Chettiar
11 books3 followersA. K. Chettiar (3 November 1911 – 10 September 1983) was an Indian travelogue writer, journalist and documentary film maker from Tamil Nadu, India. He is most notable for pioneering travelogue writing in Tamil and for his documentary on Mahatma Gandhi.
Born in Nattukottai Nagarathar Family in Kottaiyur in Madras Presidency, A. Karuppan Chettiar finished his schooling in Tiruvannamalai. He was interested in travelling and started on a world tour in the 1930s. In 1935, he went to Japan to learn photography at the Imperial College of Technology, Tokyo and studied there for a year. In 1937, he joined the New York Institute of Photography and completed a one-year diploma course in photography.
Chettiar is considered as "one of the foremost writers of modern travelogues in Tamil". He collected more than 140 travel essays in Tamil belonging to the 1825–1940 period, edited and published them as a book in 1940. His own travel essays were published first in 1940 as Ulagam surrum Tamilan (The Globe Trotting Tamil). He has written a total of seventeen travel books.
Chettiar first published a Tamil magazine called Dhanavanigan in Burma when he was twenty years old. In 1930, he helped to set up the magazine Ananda Vikatan. From 1943 till his death in 1983, he edited and published Kumari Malar from Chennai.
Born in Nattukottai Nagarathar Family in Kottaiyur in Madras Presidency, A. Karuppan Chettiar finished his schooling in Tiruvannamalai. He was interested in travelling and started on a world tour in the 1930s. In 1935, he went to Japan to learn photography at the Imperial College of Technology, Tokyo and studied there for a year. In 1937, he joined the New York Institute of Photography and completed a one-year diploma course in photography.
Chettiar is considered as "one of the foremost writers of modern travelogues in Tamil". He collected more than 140 travel essays in Tamil belonging to the 1825–1940 period, edited and published them as a book in 1940. His own travel essays were published first in 1940 as Ulagam surrum Tamilan (The Globe Trotting Tamil). He has written a total of seventeen travel books.
Chettiar first published a Tamil magazine called Dhanavanigan in Burma when he was twenty years old. In 1930, he helped to set up the magazine Ananda Vikatan. From 1943 till his death in 1983, he edited and published Kumari Malar from Chennai.
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