High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pa. Raghavan, a well known Tamil writer ? journalist, winner of the prestigious ?Bharathiya Basha Parishad Award? in 2004, is an editor by profession. Raghavan is more popular for his political histories rather than his fiction works. Dollar Desam (Political History of America) and Nilamellam Raththam (History of the Israel ? Palestine Conflict) are considered to be the milestones in Tamil non- fiction writing. Raghavan was born in Adyar, Chennai and spent his early years in many villages of Chengalpet District because of the frequent transfers of his father in his job. In the mid-1980s, his family shifted and settled in Chennai where Raghavanfinished his school and college studies in 1988. Even though he has completed a course in Mechanical Engineering, he did not want to take a job in a factory because of the interest in writing.