காசி ஆனந்தன் (Kasi Ananthan)

Kasi Ananthan was born in 1939 at Batticaloa. In his early days, he was known as Unarchi Kavignar (Poet of Emotions). As a revered poet among Eelam Tamils, Kasi Ananthan resigned his secretarial position when Sri Lanka became a Republic in 1972 to advocate for Tamil liberation through militant action. His poems were considered seditious, and he spent five long years in various prisons at Welikade, Batticaloa, Matara, and Kandy. He currently resides in Tamil Nadu.