T.D Ramakrishnan

Thathamangalam Damodaran Ramakrishnan is a retired Chief Controller of the Southern Railway and an Indian novelist, and translator. He was born in 1961 in the Indian town of Thrissur's Eyyal village. His education was finished at Kunnamkulam Boys High School, Erumappetty Government High School, and UC College, Aluva, where he received his pre-degree and degree. He started working for Indian Railways in Salem as a ticket collector in 1981. He spent one and a half years working in Calicut beginning in 1982. He was a ticket examiner in Madras and Salem in 1983. In 1985, he relocated to Palghat. In 1995, he began working as a controller at the Palghat Railway Divisional Office. He was the Southern Railway Chief Controller from January 2006 to December 31, 2016.

His debut book, Alpha, tells the tale of an anthropologist's experiment on the human brain and is set on the fictional island of Alpha, which is somewhere close to Sri Lanka. Francis Itty Cora, his second book, won critical acclaim for its first-of-its-kind integration of numerous historical figures from over the world and for using information now available to Malayalam readers to weave the plot. The story centers on the exploration of Francis Itty Cora, a merchant from Kerala in the fifteenth century. Sugandhi Enna Andal Devanayaki, his third book, is based on Rajini Thiranagama, a Tamil activist for human rights. He has won the Vayalar Award and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Ramakrishnan, who spent most of his professional life in Tamil Nadu, is also closely related to Tamil literature.