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'''Jayakanthan''' (born [[1934]]) is a [[Tamil]] [[writer]], [[essayist]], [[journalist]], [[pampamphleteerpamphleteer]], [[film-maker]] and [[critic]]. He was known for his bold and revolutionary ideas.
 
Jeyakanthan was born in 1934 in a family of agriculturalists in [[Cuddalore]],in the North Arcot district of [[Tamil Nadu]]. He quit school after completing grade 5 education. He was considered a problematic child. Unable to bear the harsh treatment meted out to him he ran away from home at the age of 12. He grew up under the aegis of his uncle from whom he imbibed [[communist]] ideologies. He later married a [[dalit]] woman and went to live with her in the [[slums]].
 
He was iconclast who ridiculed [[social]] anomalies. His stories are vivid portrayals of life as he sees them and they embrace humanity as a whole.
 
 
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==Notable quotes (Translations)==
*''There was a time when I numbered among my close friends rickshaw- drivers, prostitutes, rowdies, pickpockets and cigarette-butt scavengers. Perhaps because of that fact I can never work up disgust towards their kind. There is a sense of involvement among them. Sometimes I even wonder whether I wouldn't have been happier if I had decided to live among them as one of the family. Truly, an attraction for their life came to be planted in my youthful mind . . . There is in the life of such people a flaming passion, a liveliness, and truth!''
 
*''They hold a notion that I have all along been writing about people of the lower strata. But haven't I really been writing about high level people among the so-called lower strataWho belongs to the higher strata and who to the lower strata? That cannot be determined by their position or by their place of living. It is by how they are - how they live - that a determination should be made.''
 
*''However lowly and decadent are the matters that I have to take up broadly for depiction in my story, I tend to place special emphasis on whatever is elevating and meaningful for life embedded in them. And thus I sing of the glory of life.''