sentences:  He met the editor M.Govindan in 1957 and they became friends.The majority of his early short stories were published in the magazines "Sarawathi" and "Santhi," although he also wrote several collections, among them "Akkaraic chimaiyil" (On the Shores Beyond, 1959) and "Pitatchatam" (Offerings,1964) "Oru Puliamarathin Kathai" (The Story of a Tamarind Tree, 1966) was his first novel.It received critical acclaim, and is now regarded as a groundbreaking classic of Tamil literature.