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| name = Krithika<br />
| image = Krithika.jpg<br />
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| pseudonym = Krithika<br />
| birth_name = Mathuram<br />
| birth_date = 1915<br />
| birth_place = Bombay, [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = 2009<br />
| death_place = Delhi, India<br />
| occupation = Writer, novelist, [[scriptwriter]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| period = <br />
| spouse = S. Bhoothalingam<br />
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'''Mathuram Bhoothalingam''' (pen name '''Krithika''') was a [[Tamil people|Tamil]] writer who wrote plays and short stories in [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and English.<ref name="India1986">{{cite book|author=Authors Guild of India|title=Indian author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBFZAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=5 August 2012|year=1986|publisher=Authors Guild of India|page=42}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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Krithika was born as Mathuram in a Tamil-speaking family in [[Bombay]] in 1915.<ref name=gowri>{{cite news|last=Ramnarayan|first=Gowri|title=Writers as friends in correspondence|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3704375.ece|accessdate=4 August 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 July 2012}}</ref> At an early age, she moved to [[Delhi]] where she spent a considerable part of her life.<ref name=Muthiah>{{cite news|last=S|first=Muthiah|title=A 40-year correspondence|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/05/25/stories/2009052550120400.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125151406/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/05/25/stories/2009052550120400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2013|accessdate=4 August 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 May 2009}}</ref> She was married to [[Subrahmanya Bhoothalingam]], an [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] officer from Delhi.<ref name=Muthiah/> The couple have a daughter, [[Mina Swaminathan]].<ref name=Muthiah/><br />
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Krithika died in 2009 at the age of 93.<ref name=gowri/><br />
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==Literary career==<br />
Mathuram started writing under the pen name "Krithika" from an early age.<ref name="India1986"/> Making her debut with the Tamil-language novel ''Puhai Naduvil'', an acid look at the bureaucracy, she went on to write a number of children's stories, novels, and plays based on the ''[[puranas]]''.<ref name=Muthiah/><br />
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Her play ''Manathile Oru Maru'' was directed by another famous writer of her time, Chitti ([[P. G. Sundararajan]]), with whom she shared a strong bond of friendship.<ref name=gowri/><ref name=Muthiah/> Chitti even authored a book titled ''An Introduction: Krithika and Mathuram Bhoothalingam''.<ref name="truth">{{cite news | author1=Adma Narayanan |author2=Prema Seetharam |url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2004/08/01/stories/2004080100280500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812215519/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2004/08/01/stories/2004080100280500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 August 2004 | title=The truth as it is | date=1 August 2004 | work=[[The Hindu]] | accessdate=5 August 2012 }}</ref> Midway through her career, Krithika also started to write in English.<br />
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As Krithika started to write children's books apart from adult-centric stories, she began using her given name.<ref name=Muthiah/> Krithika was one of the first Indian authors to regularly publish children's books in English.<ref name=Muthiah/> Some of her important works in English are ''Movement in Stone'', which looks at early [[Chola]] temples and the influence of [[Pallava]] art prior to the 9th and 10th centuries; and, ''Yoga for Living'' (1996), a contemporary look at the direction of India.<ref name=Muthiah/><br />
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''Vasaveswaram'' is one of her works which focused on women and dealt with issues faced by them in the society.<ref name="truth"/> Krithika has also authored books on [[Hindu Epics]] such as [[Ramayana]].<ref name="Relations1966">{{cite book|author=Modern Language Association of America. Conference on Oriental-Western Literary Relations|title=Literature east & west|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDkqAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=5 August 2012|year=1966|page=405}}</ref><br />
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Her written correspondence with Chitti which spanned over 30 years have been brought together and published in the form of a book titled ''Lettered Dialogue'' by [[K. R. A. Narasaiah]], a relative of Chitti.<ref name="thehindu_20120720">{{cite news|title=Writers as friends in correspondence|first=Gowri|last=Ramnarayan|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3704375.ece|work=The Hindu|date=30 July 2012}}</ref><br />
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