S R Sundaram (aka Kannan Sundaram) is the Managing Director and publisher of Kalachuvadu Publication Pvt Ltd and the editor and publisher of ‘Kalachuvadu’, a monthly journal for culture and politics. ‘Kalachuvadu’ was awarded the Best Publisher Award by Publishing Next (2018) and the Romain Rolland award for best translation from French to an Indian language (2018). Kannan co-organised ‘Tamil Ini 2000′, the international Tamil conference on 20th century Tamil writing. His mission is to get the best of Tamil literature translated into other Indian and world languages and vice versa. He has published five books on Tamil media, publishing and politics.