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Alagu Subramaniam

Alagu Subramaniam (1910–1971) was a British Ceylon born writer, a prominent figure in London's Bloomsbury literary circle, a Barrister-at-Law of The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon.

He is the author of ''The Big Girl & Other Stories'' a retro-collection of short stories; they recount scenes of life in Jaffna during the colonial era, which includes the short story "Professional Mourners" which reflects the obsolete customs and practices of professional mourning done by some Sri Lankan Tamil communities.

He also authored the book ''Closing Time & Other Stories'' which contains stories set in London during the World War 2 era.

Mulk Raj Anand and Iqbal Singh published one of his short stories in their anthology ''Indian Short Stories'' (New India Publishing Company, 1946). His short stories were published by a number of journals, such as ''Life'', ''Letters Today'', ''Left Review'' and ''Tribune''.

He was involved with the anti-colonial organisation, Swaraj House, which was formed in 1942 as a break-away group from the British Committee of the Indian National Congress.

He was one of the founders and editors of the literary magazine ''Indian Writing'' of which Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru also contributed.

He was one of the founding fathers of Hindu Educational Society which had established several schools, including the Colombo Hindu College. Provided by Wikipedia