A. R. Venkatachalapathy Writer
A R Venkatachalapathy (Tamil: ஆ. இரா. வேங்கடாசலபதி) is a historian, author and translator from Tamil Nadu, India who writes and publishes in Tamil and English. Currently he is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS). He is noted for collecting and publishing the works of Tamil writer Pudhumaipithan.