Rajesh Kumar - Rajesh Kumar is the pseudonym of KR Rajagopal, a Tamil author of crime fiction. He created a pseudonym based on the names of his sister and his sister in law: Rajeshwari and Ananthakumar. Prior to writing full time, Kumar spent five years teaching, with a degree in education from Ramakrishna Vidyalaya. When he grew bored with this, he worked as a sales representative for an industrial rubber goods company. Kumars first published story was in 1968 or 1969, in the college magazine of Government Arts College, Coimbatore, where he earned a degree in botany. He has attributed this to a prank by another student, who used Kumars name when volunteering to submit a story for the magazine; when his professor refused to allow Kumar to back out. The Rajesh Kumar is the pseudonym of KR Rajagopal, a Tam...
