He introduced the Marxist ideology in Tamil literature, in the early 1990s,[1] and authored 28 books on literary criticism, five collections of essays, three collections of poetry, eleven anthologies and edited many books.
Pazhanisamy was born in 1935, in Somannur in Coimbatore, of Tamil Nadu, one of the eight children of Krishnaswamy and Mariammal.
[4] In 1988, at the age of 55, he lost his sight due to diabetes, but that did not stop his quest for reading and writing.
[5][6] As a Marxist thinker, or as a person moved towards Tamil nationalism, he did not associate with any political party or movement in India.
He who made a significant role in founding the poetry movement Vaanampaadi, which focuses discovering new poets, with writers like Sirpi Balasubramaniam, Mehta and Bhuviyarash.