What is Melanmai Ponnusamy?
[[File:Melanmai ponnuswamy.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Ponnusamy in December 2006]] '''Melanmai Ponnusamy''' ({{lang-ta|மேலாண்மை பொன்னுசாமி}}, 1951 – 30 October 2017) was a [[Tamil language|Tamil]] writer and journalist. He was born in [[Melanmarainadu]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India. He was a [[Marxist]] by political orientation and a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (CPI-M). His first short story was published in 1972 in the literary journal ''Semmalar''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/22/stories/2009012258020200.htm|title=The novelist who captures the rural life in its pristine form|last=Karthikeyan|first=D|date=22 January 2009|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=7 April 2010|archive-date=1 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201162711/http://hindu.com/2009/01/22/stories/2009012258020200.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/13/stories/2009011360230700.htm|title=‘Makkal’ award for Shanta, M.Annadurai, Ponnusamy|date=13 January 2009|work=The Hindu|access-date=7 April 2010|archive-date=20 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320014841/http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/13/stories/2009011360230700.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He wrote columns for ''[[Ananda Vikatan]]'' and ''[[Kalki]]''. Ponnusamy died of a [[heart attack]] in Tamil Nadu on 30 October 2017 at the age of 66.<ref>[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/tamil-writer-melanmai-ponnusamy-dies-aged-66/articleshow/61338369.cms Tamil writer Melanmai Ponnusamy dies aged 66]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ponnusamy, Melanmai}} [[Category:1951 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Indian writers]] [[Category:Indian communists]] [[Category:Indian journalists]] {{bio-stub}}