[1] She belonged to a distinguished family of the Kingdom of Mysore, her father T. Ramaiah being a senior civil servant.

The lone girl in her class, she outperformed the boys, leading to considerable pressure from their parents to have her removed from the school.

At the age of 25, her articles began to appear in the newly established humour magazine Koravanji, receiving critical praise.

[1][3] When she moved to Bangalore, her observations of the middle-class lives of her neighbours, in particular the women of Basavangudi, began to inform her writings.

All's well, an English reworking from a Kannada play by Sundar based on Sunandamma's short story Aadaddella Olithe…?