[1][2][3] Sinnathamby Kasipillai Senthivel was born in Sirrupiddy near Puttur, Sri Lanka.
[4] He was inspired by public opinion at an early age and began to act as a Marxist.
At the age of 21 he became full time worker for Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) in 1964 and participated in the 1966 October 21 Uprising against Untouchability in Jaffna.
[5] He subsequently took part in a number of mass struggles and written many books in Tamil.
Subsequently in 2003, he wrote a biography of Communist M. Karthikeyan and the Northern Left Movement.