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About Naa Govindasamy
- Naa Govindasamy (18 April 1946 – 26 May 1999) was one of the pioneers of the Tamil on the Internet. Naa Govindasamy was a lecturer at the National Institute of Education, who worked to develop the Singapore 16 bit Unicode system which uses Tamilnet and Tamilfix fonts and enables a user to input Tamil in all three computer platforms - Windows, Mac and Unix.
- These fonts enable a user to read emails and web pages in Tamil on a terminal with only a shell account.
- Amongst his other achievements, Govindasamy contributed to the development of Tamil literature in Singapore.
- He made significant contributions, specifically the creation of several plays, dramas and short stories for radio and television.
- Among the plays, two proved to be very popular, namely Anbukku Apaal and Alaigal Oyvathillai.
- He also published a collection of short stories entitled Thedi, for which he received the National Book Development Council’s award in 1992.
- In 1977 in Singapore, he initiated the Ilakkiya Kalam (Literary Critics' Circle) which gathered and analysed the best stories of the period and subsequently a collection of the best short stories of 1977 was published in 1981.
- He also published a novelette, Velvi.
- In 1994, he was awarded the S.E.A.
- Write Award. His untimely demise in 1999 is considered a huge loss to the Tamil society in Singapore and around the world.
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