Maharishi (writer)

Maharishi is the pseudonym of T.K. Balasubramanian, a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India. Many of his novels were made into films including the film Bhuvana Oru Kelvi Kuri (1977). Maharishi was born in Tanjore, but settled in Salem, Tamil Nadu. He worked as a clerk in the TNEB. His first novel Panimalai was made as film titled Ennathan Mudivu in 1965. Some of his other novels which were made into films are Bhadrakali (1977), Sainthadamma Sainthadu (1977), Vattathukkul Chaduram (1978), Nadhiyai Thedi Vandha Kadal (1980).[2][3][4]

Maharishi has written around 130 novels, 5 short-story collections and 60 essays.