Man Who Gave Us Electronic Voting System Is No More

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S. Rangarajan, the man who gave India the Electronic Voting Machine has passed away. He was more popular under he penname Sujatha which he used for his articles, novels, screenplay and dialogues for several Tamil movies.

He passed away in Chennai on Wednesday. He was 73.

S Rangarajan was an electronic engineer for Bharat Electronics Limited, and headed the team that designed and manufactured the EVM first used in 1989.

In the 2004 general elections, nearly one million EVMs were used a sign of its success. Subsequently, he also fine tuned the EVM to its present form.

Writing under his wife Sujatha’s name, he entertained three generations of Tamil readers with lucid prose and humour.. He could demystify the most complex fact in a layman’s language. He wrote 100 novels and more than 200 short stories, and his fictional private detectives Ganesh and Vasanth are part of Tamil folklore.

He was also a much sought-after screen play and dialogue writer who worked with top directors like K. Balachander, Mani Rathnam and Shankar (the latest being Sivaji). At the time of his death, he was working on Shankar’s mega move, Robo starring Rajnikanth and Aishwarya Rai.

News Source: Hindustan Times

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Tags: EVM, Indian Personalities, S Rangrajan, Sujatha