Rajesh Kumar is the pseudonym of KR Rajagopal a Tamil author of crime fiction He created a pseudonym based on the names of his sister and his sister in law Rajeshwari and Ananthakumar Prior to writing full time Kumar spent five years teaching with a degree in education from Ramakrishna Vidyalaya When he grew bored with this he worked as a sales representative for an industrial rubber goods company Kumars first published story was in 1968 or 1969 in the college magazine of Government Arts College Coimbatore where he earned a degree in botany He has attributed this to a prank by another student who used Kumars name when volunteering to submit a story for the magazine when his professor refused to allow Kumar to back out The Rajesh Kumar is the pseudonym of KR Rajagopal a Tamil author of crime fiction He created a pseudonym based on the names of his sister and his sister in law Rajeshwari and Ananthakumar Prior to writing full time Kumar spent five years teaching with a degree in education from Ramakrishna Vidyalaya When he grew bored with this he worked as a sales representative for an industrial rubber goods company Kumar s first published story was in 1968 or 1969 in the college magazine of Government Arts College Coimbatore where he earned a degree in botany He has attributed this to a prank by another student who used Kumar s name when volunteering to submit a story for the magazine when his professor refused to allow Kumar to back out The next day he reluctantly submitted Vaazhndhu Kaatuvom a love story. Later that year he submitted the crime story Unnai Vidamaatten to a short story contest in Maalai Murasu this was the first story for which he was paid In 1977 his work began appearing in Kumudam starting with the short story Idhu Nyayama. His first novel Vaadagaiku Oru Uyir was published in 1980 He subsequently told of how the editor of Kumudam had seen a porter on a platform at Eg Railway Station engrossed in one of Kumar s stories The porter had also forgone customers just to finish the story It was then that the editor decided to make Kumar write a novel In 1986 his publisher asked him if he could produce a novel a month as a result he became a full time writer. As of 2019 Kumar has written over 1500 novels dubious discuss his son for whom digitizing the novels into e books is a full time profession has been able to locate around 1000 of them He has also written over 2000 short stories and scripts for over 250 television series as well as the 2015 film Sandamarutham He received the Tamil Nadu State government s prestigious Kalaimamani award in 2009 site_link Very interestingRajesh Kumars yet another thriller Very interesting plot purnima s motive doesn t do proper justice to the twist Otherwise a good read Rajesh Kumar Thriller Based Fiction Written By Rajeshkumar Never.