The Epic Saga Ponniyin Selvan
Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy, also known as Kalki, was born on September 9, 1899, in Puthamangalam, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, to Ramaswamy Iyer and Thaiyal Nayagi. In his village of Tanjavur, Ramaswamy Iyer worked as an accountant. He was given the name “Kalki” after the Hindu god Vishnu’s tenth manifestation. Ponniyin Selvan tells the tale of Arulmozhivarman […]