One of the most versatile of contemporary Tamil writers, Sundara Ramaswamy, fondly called Suraa, brought about a new wave in Tamil literature. Despite the fact that he received no formal education, he was adept in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Sanskrit. His creative genius manifested it self through his work, cutting across genres – short stories, novels, poems, essays, criticism and translation. He wrote poetry under the pseudonym Pasuviah.